[TML] Honor 'Just call me Horatio' Harrington was Re:Environmental domes

shadow at shadowgard.com shadow at shadowgard.com
Fri Sep 7 20:50:37 MDT 2007


On 8 Sep 2007 at 7:24, Rupert Boleyn wrote:

> Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
> > The German technological superiority was always hobbled by critical  
> > resource shortages, and by the end of the war, the Soviets probably  
> > had the best ground support air force in the world in terms of  
> > training and experience if not technology, even if a chunk of it was  
> > flying biplanes.
> 
> There was nothing wrong with Soviet fighters when it came to low 
> altitude performance either, and as the fighters were there to protect 
> the ground attack aeroplanes, that's where they needed performance most.

A lesson that seems lost on the USAF, alas.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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