The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
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- Jun 27, 2007
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Uk is an island nation.
Poland is not.
Radar and fighters are no good if occupied by a foreign army.
Was early WWII RAF command control any better then Polish Air Force command and control?
RAF operations in France and Norway during 1940 were nothing to brag about. Conditions in Poland would have been similiar with a need to support fast moving ground operations.
I disagree with the idea that any fighter would have done. The Hurricane just scraped by. If we had to depend on the Venom or Gladiator then bad things may have happened.
A) The Roc and the Fulmar were poor in comparison to what could have been.
B) A naval Venom would have been tops.
Uk is an island nation.
Comparing the British and Polish war effort is trying to compare apples with oranges.
2 different scenarios.
One must also remember that both the Hurricane and Spitfire had the Merlin engine which was new at the time. If the Merlin had been a dog like the Vulture, Goshawk or Peregrine then we had 2 fighters which went no where.
The UK is not a nation. England,Scotland and Wales are. The United Kingdom is,including Northern Ireland,spread over several islands so I take your point.
Sorry to be pedantic but these things do matter.
Cheers
Steve
Both countries have had airforces. The key part of one was absent from another, hence the second one never had oportunity to make a concentration of it's fighter AAA force, like the 1st one managed.
I see no issues in Bristol Taurus Hercules being fighter engines for BoB; Merlin was fine piece of engineering, but not irreplacable.