[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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