In message , Chad Irby
writes
In article ,
(Smartace11) wrote:
The Soviets/Russians have always made disposable fighter engines from what I
know. Run'em hot, burn'em up, then salvage/overhaul them.
Eliminates most of
the logistics tail

...up until week two or three, when you're out of engines, and your
depots are all smoking ruins...

Come on, you must have seen it...

Two Soviet tank marshalls sipping champagne on the Champs-Elysees,
watching the Red Army's victory parade. One asks the other "So who _did_
win the air war?"

If they could dispute air superiority long enough for the Massive
Armoured Spearheads(TM) to smash their way to the objective (the Ruhr?
The Channel?) they win. Same reason the tanks were only designed for
short lives... who cares, they'll be destroyed before then anyway.

Now, with hindsight that plan worked a lot better in theory than in
practice... but it worked for them in the Great Patriotic War, and the
West was hoping to "be the Germans but win" in a Central Front rematch.


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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

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