I gave up on trying to come up with a designation so FW-2 works perfectly! The gun replacement is two .50s replacing the six .303s in the original kit.
Excellent! So, maybe the USN's CCF-built
Sea Hurricane line-up goes something like this ...
- FW :
Sea Hurricane Mk.XIA; US equipment, V-1650-1 (
Merlin 28) engine, 8 x .30 AN/M2s;
- FW-2 :
Sea Hurricane Mk.XIIA variant built specifically to US Navy requirements;
-- FW-2: Packard V-1650-2 (
Merlin 29 built to BuAer specifications), 4 x .50 AN/M2 machine guns;
- FW-2A: Lend-Lease
Sea Hurricane Mk.XIIA, Packard
Merlin 29, 8 x .303-inch Brownings
- XFW-3 :
Sea Hurricane Mk.XII with 4 x 20 mm Hispanos (not taken into USN operational service);
- FW-3A: (Project) Planned cannon-armed Lend-Lease
Sea Hurricane Mk.XIII (not built);
- FW-4 :
Sea Hurricane Mk.XIIA with 1,280 hp Packard V-1650-3, 4 x .50-cal Brownings
- FW-4A: Lend-Lease
Sea Hurricane Mk.XIV with 1,280 hp Packard
Merlin 63
- FW-5 : Final production model with bubble canopy and 6 x .50 AN/M2s, most cancelled in Aug. 1945