Extra firepower is good but on the Bf 109 it came at a price. Let us talk about gun pods, the experiments with a failed design and the price you pay for firepower.

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Sources
BArch, RL 36 55, Luftflottenkommando 3, Erfahrungsbericht über Fw 190 und B 109 G 4, 27.1.1943

Kurfurst.org, Flugleistungen Me 109GBaureihen, http://kurfurst.org/

Acknowledgements
Thanks go to BohicaIce from BoTimeGaming for his picture of the War Thunder Me 163    / @botimegaming  

Timecodes
00:00 Intro
00:50 Source
01:28 Centerline gun pod
03:06 Performance
04:57 Flight Characteristics
07:20 Production & Development
11:35 Performance differential between pods
12:50 Context & Conclusion
14:10 Outro

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