SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I'm bored.
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I'm bored.
Well in 1941 Joe Louis won a controversial decision of Max Baer's brother Buddy Baer due to some controversy over a punch landed after the bell to end one round, so I guess you could argue over who was best and who was second best that year. ( Boxing in the 1940s - Wikipedia )Get thee back to the naughty corner!
I'm going to throw in that least 10,000 units should be produced. You can't be even second best if you're a niche player like the 3,500 Nakajima Ki-84s or less than 2,000 Hawker Tempests.
A threshold of 10,000 leaves lots of top contenders. A6M (11k built), P-47 (>15k built), Fw190 (>20k built), Spitfire (>20k built, including postwar), Yak-9 (>16k, including postwar), F4U Corsair (12k).
It depends on what an auto is for. For moving the most number of people at the least per unit cost, the Pinto beats the FerrarI, regardless of the former's incendiary nature. For its low cost per unit, your P-40 shot down far more enemy aircraft and I would argue had a greater impact on the war than the 262.Ford produced more Pintos than Ferrari did 348s. That doesn't mean the Pinto is a better auto.
It depends on what an auto is for. For moving the most number of people at the least per unit cost, the Pinto beats the FerrarI, regardless of the former's incendiary nature. For its low cost per unit, your P-40 shot down far more enemy aircraft and I would argue had a greater impact on the war than the 262.
We have to be mindful of these "best of WW2" whatever category. Of course the easiest, low hanging fruit is to look at the closing months of the war and ignore all that came before. This is the obvious route, so I'm going to instead set a 10,000 unit threshold, asking which is the best fighter made in significant numbers.
... and it was an $$$$ repair, too!One could bend & leave a Pinto, not so with a Ferrari. The Rerrari had to be repaired.
Many fighter aircraft produced even in tiny numbers may be contenders for the overall 2nd best fighter of WW2, including the Ta 152 (69 built), Kawasaki Ki-100 (396 built), Grumman F8F Bearcat (a very few in service from May 1945) or the Macchi C.205 (262 built).All of this ignores the point that confusing quantity and quality is a category error. There could be a number of reasons why a plane didn't get built in numbers.