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"Vanishing American Air Superiority"
On 5 Mar, 18:39, "Ray O'Hara" wrote:
"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message ... On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:10:15 -0500, "Ray O'Hara" wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/...an_air_superio... Vanishing American Air Superiority what a load of ****. That's a difficult argument to refute. Penetrating analysis at its finest. What parts? Spit/Hurricane? Sabre/Thunderjet? Century series? Boyd and hi/lo mix? You've given us so much to think about Ray. what better planes being planned never mind actually being built by anybody else. the points the author makes are false strawman types. the Brits on 1940 didn't need two types, they needed more spits, they were building them. What utter rubbish, what the RAF needed in 1940 was more pilots. Comparing the Hurri and Spit with the F-22 and F-35 is absurd, the Hurricane was not a second string cheaper fighter. The RAF had plenty of Hurricanes thanks to the foresight of Tom Sopwith (and despite the Air Ministry - Keep building Hurricanes with Fabric covered wings - and build plenty of metal wings to replace the fabric covered ones - duh) Everyone knows that the Spitfire won the Battle of Britain Anyone with an interest in military aviation knows that the Hurricane achieved more kills than all the other defenses put together during the BoB A few people know that 14000 Hurris achieved 50% of all RAF kills in WW2, 24000 Spits achieved 33% RAF Kills (aprox figs) Guy maybe you can say we have "hurricanes" now but who is building 109s? if there were no 109s then the Hurricane would have ruled the sky. technology is moving past the manned fighter. building the most advanced manned fighter now would be akin to building the most advanced bi-plane in 1935. what we have is better now than what others have now, building a hugely expensive "better" plane that will be obsolete in short order is a waste- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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