the lancaster kicks ass
Major General
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- Dec 20, 2003
oh boy, not the series 5 debate again...... let's just say that in such small numbers they'd have done nothing to the Japs so they become all but irrelivant.........
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and I have never read anything that hints at any Italian fighter giving the USAAF a hard time.
Later war Japanese fighters also were the product of an evolutionary process that did not come to a halt in 1943. That's why it's important to compare fighters at the point in time that Italy's programs stopped. Why compare 1945 rice rockets to the stallions of 1943?
So this thread shouldn't actually be ''Italian airforce vs Japanese airforce'' but ''Did the Japs have aircraft as good as the Fiat G 55 in 1943''? There's more to it than that if you're gonna compare the two airforces.
"Italians never had the opportunity to fully develop carrier based aircraft ..."
Italy did not have a single aircraft carrier and no development whatsoever of carrier based aircraft. There was no opportunity to develop carrier based aircraft because there weren't any aircraft carriers. (They did, however, field some catapault launched fighters.)
Japanese fighter tactics sucked. Why do you think they pretty consistently got waxed by smaller numbers of F4F Wildcats and P-40's?