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The problem with making comparisons between each country's machines is that we have access to information today that the designers or...

Thank you, Shortround6, I'm not a big fan of identifying "culture" as a reason for the way things are, especially when this can lead to...

That's a well written article but it reads like propaganda. In some ways it oversimplifies certain aspects of the political and economic...

I was trying to locate a direct reference, but I've seen in numerous texts the observation that Japan's Bushido Code influenced Japan's...

There are two different engineering standards going on here. Japanese and Germans may have been able to design stuff. They had trouble...

Steve Twomey’s excellent Countdown to Pearl Harbor focuses on how that attitude help make the Pearl Harbor attack possible.

And that's an understatement. The intellectual damage done by many American and British authors in the 20th century when describing...

Not that the Japanese were incapable of designing aircraft that were equal to those coming from the US. The material shortages and...

I'm not sure if this answers the OP's post, but my feeling is that the Japanese had some very good aircraft designers that were limited...

I think Japan was forced to adhere to lightly constructed, protected and armed fighters because they did not have access to powerful...

Hydrogen gets a bad rep. Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen blows up. Fossil fuels blow up, out and around. I guess they haven't figured...

That's because I go incognito...

This thread might cover some of that thought: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/usaaf-raf-vs-vvs-1945.53093/

He's on the other side of the Dateline, so he thinks he lives in an advanced society.