Wrecked RAF P-40 Kittyhawk found in Egypt

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I think it's a Tomahawk.... The engine doesn't look like the Packard or Merlin. Looks like a radial engine.... I would say it's a twin wasp. Probably a Tomahawk.

wat

The P-40 never had a radial engine, and certainly the ones that flew in North Africa never had a Packard or Merlin. IIRC, the only Packard-Merlins installed in P-40s were strictly for evaluation purposes late in the war, and to my recollection none ever saw combat. P-40s flew in combat with Allison V-12s.

Curtiss' predecessor to the P-40, the P-36 Hawk, did use a radial engine.