KrazyKraut
Banned
- 337
- Apr 21, 2008
Great reasoning: The 109 is crap because Germany didn't win the war.Like parsifal, I think the 109 is overrated, and if fact could be considered an overall failure. It was supposed to be an air superiority fighter, (Luftwaffe was designed to support ground operations, and it needed air superiority to do that), but the 109 failed in it's air superiority role in BoB, Malta, North Africa, and eventually in Russia, over the channel (where the FW190 took it's place mid war) and in their own air space over Germany in 43/44/45. Really, all of the 109s success (strategically and tactically, I'm not talking about individual successes), were against older obsolete airforces such as Poland,the Low Counties and USSR in 1941/42. Toughest nut it cracked was France.
I quote JoeB: "There's seems a fairly widespread recognition that it had success in some periods/theaters of the war (or wars, WWII and Spanish Civil War), and didn't in others, for a variety of reasons." Where in any book good or bad, any television show or any movie is the Bf 109 ever represented as overall supreme or without opposition? None. In fact it's probably a bit underrated in public opinion because that opinion likes to focus on either the BoB or the year of 1944, the worst periods for the Bf 109.
How anyone can call the 109 overrated or even an overall failure is beyond me and I can only think these people must be politically motivated.