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 | | The Italian aircraft company Macchi had developed the elegant C202 Folgore (Lightning) fighter in the late 1930s but because there was no suitable indigenous inline engine of suitable power, Macchi instead installed the German-sourced Daimler-Benz DB601 twelve-cylinder inverted-V liquid-cooled engine. |
 | | Although it was available too late and in too little numbers to affect the outcome of Italy’s involvement in the war, the Macchi C202 proved clearly superior to both the American Curtiss P-40 and the British Hawker Hurricane. |
 | | Although Macchi C202 Folgores outnumbered all other fighter aircraft in the Italian air force, total production was limited by engine availability and amounted to only about 1,500. |
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