Think about this : a fighter that could achieve a top speed of maximum 505 km/h ( 316 mph ) gave quite a good acount of itself in the air battles of summer 1944 against the 15th USAAF, when IAR-81/80 squadrons claimed close to 100 confirmed heavy bombers.
Former engineers considered that with...
The Romanian IAR-80/81 fighter never had the chance to take on mid or late-war Allied fighters with anything like even odds...
Because the stupid Luftwaffe commanders refused to supply the IAR factory with BMW-801 engines or provide some of the necessary tools for licence production , this...
Hello everybody, I'm new here so I want to give everyone a big salute !!
Anyway, here's a link to my site, which is about the Romanian airforce. Please excuse the quality of the site ( it was optimized for 800x600 resolution, which was the best my old monitor could do, and I was green about...