Recent content by paladin24

Global-scale industrial wars are won by making a whole hell of a lot of "pretty good" airplanes, handing them over to scared, green kids, and throwing them at the enemy in huge numbers. They are not won by comparing performance data line by line and declaring a winner. If the F6F is truly...

The Hellcat began kicking butt on day 1 of introduction and was still kicking butt at the end of the war with a design that only incorporated minor changes and only 2 main variants (water injection, spring tabs, bomb and rocket racks being the major additions) and a lot of it was because Grumman...