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    The Fork-Tailed Devil..History of the P-38

    Which Armored commander would this be? I don't think the the M4 Sherman was ever considered a "undergunned death trap" - or was it?
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    How good was the soviet air force?

    No wonder the French pilots on the Eastern front had much success with the Yak-3. Fighting the Luftwaffe in the last 9 months of the war (or for most of that period) would have seemed like a big mopping-up operation - the quality of German pilots had seriously deteriorated by then.
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    Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

    He's flying it of course! Can you not see the cowboy hat - and the dark glasses - in the cockpit?
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    Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

    If I recall, the T-4 never reached a speed of Mach 3, Mach 1.2 was the fastest it had ever flown. The T-4 flew only 10 times and half of those flights were flown with the undercarriage fully extended.
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    Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

    USS Suribachi - September 1992
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    Weather limitations in carrier aviation in the interwar and WWII eras

    The RN operated the Blackburn Skua from carriers and it was not exactly overpowered - why not the SBD-3? SBDs were even successfully operated from short and slow escort carriers in the Atlantic.
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    How good was the soviet air force?

    Indeed they would not. Very overrated aircraft, design-wise, but over 30,000 were produced during the war, which helped it to make some sort of difference in the fighting.
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    How good was the soviet air force?

    Well, there might have been some reduction in Luftwaffe strength from around that period of time (midsummer 1943), but that could be explained by many of the Luftwaffe's fighters being redirected to the western front to deal with the growing USAAF strategic bomber offensive. There might be some...
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    How good was the soviet air force?

    "Exposing the Myth of Soviet Aerial Superiority Over the Luftwaffe in WW2" I never knew that that was ever a 'myth' I always thought the the Soviet air force were only ever able to gain any kind of "air superiority" over the Luftwaffe in the last 12 months of the war? Were there any other...
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    Rn vs IJN

    It's not that slim a record. It's an impressive list of warships attacked and even sunk, It's a better record if you compare it with the RAF and FAA record, surely?
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    The airplane that did the most to turn the tide of the war.

    The Spitfire was already 2 years in RAF service by the time of the Battle of Britain, still not enough time? In any case that is surely a problem that all air arms must suffer when introducing new aircraft types - did pilots of the new Fw 190 suffer to RAF Spitfires in 1942?
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    The airplane that did the most to turn the tide of the war.

    The Hurricane was the leading fighter, fighterbomber of the allies (including the Soviet Union) for the first three years of the war. It may well be the top scoring allied fighter plane of the entire war.
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    Best biplane divebomber

    But did either the Swordfish or the Albacore seriously damage or even sink much of the enemy's shipping when used as dive bombers, apart from depth charge attacks on submarines? It would have been the biplane aircraft normally flying at the edge of their range and endurance, surely?
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    ID this plane please

    Certainly a makey-uppy design (look at that tail), but even the most creative artists are inspired by everyday realities and things they have seen. Perhaps they had the: De Havilland Albatross or the De Havilland Flamingo in mind?
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    Rn vs IJN

    Well, seeing as the RN were not able to average half of this performance against the rest of the German and Italian naval fleets throughout the rest of the war (speaking of night-fighting ability only) I wouldn't be so sure that the Japanese navy would be such a soft touch to defeat.
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