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Re: Mikoyan Ye-150/151/152 and Ye-8 fightersYes. I wonder: Does the lack of pilot visibility through most of the weapon's firing arch suggests some type of primitive radar control in the 151?Technically, I'm not. I'm essentially proposing a scenario where the targeted fighter hasn't spotted the attacker in time. I've read accounts of the Korean war which depict fighter vs. fighter combat as almost entirely taking place under such conditions where only a single pass is made. It is also worth noting that bombers are not always completely unmanoeuvrable. In WWII British night bombers exploited the low visibility and lack of formation flight which allowed evasive manoeuvres. Alternatively, there was a period where the low wing loading of British V bombers gave a better turn radius than could be achieved by contemporary Soviet interceptors at high altitudes (quoting Buttler and Gordon on this). However, I agree with you that improving fighter manoeuvrability made any possibility of effective turret use obsolete by the end of the 1950s. I'm just not quite as ignorant as you might suspect.
Re: Mikoyan Ye-150/151/152 and Ye-8 fighters
Yes. I wonder: Does the lack of pilot visibility through most of the weapon's firing arch suggests some type of primitive radar control in the 151?
Technically, I'm not. I'm essentially proposing a scenario where the targeted fighter hasn't spotted the attacker in time. I've read accounts of the Korean war which depict fighter vs. fighter combat as almost entirely taking place under such conditions where only a single pass is made. It is also worth noting that bombers are not always completely unmanoeuvrable. In WWII British night bombers exploited the low visibility and lack of formation flight which allowed evasive manoeuvres. Alternatively, there was a period where the low wing loading of British V bombers gave a better turn radius than could be achieved by contemporary Soviet interceptors at high altitudes (quoting Buttler and Gordon on this). However, I agree with you that improving fighter manoeuvrability made any possibility of effective turret use obsolete by the end of the 1950s. I'm just not quite as ignorant as you might suspect.
