Talk:SB2U/@comment-27058477-20161205071106/@comment-108.88.197.98-20161208042419

Worse as in "obsolete before the war started and in the process of being replaced by the Dauntless" worse.

So not "bad", perhaps, but it had about 2/3 the horsepower and takeoff weight (and half the range, and .30 cals instead of .50 cals, and so on). It first came into service in 1937, while the Dauntless started in 1940. Several years of difference at a time when warplane technology was starting to develop quickly.