History question...

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Originally posted by Karnak
I recall that the UK commited a greater percentage of it's fighter force to the defense of France than France did of it's own fighter force.

theoricaly.

Originally posted by Krusty
Why not?

Here is why not.

LA7, N1k2, P51D, F4U-1/4,109G, and all the other late war fighters.

Consider, the French air force was DONE, out of service, before even the Battle of Britain. Nobody EVER will fly early 1940 planes in the late-war MA. They would be easy targets and rightly so.


No, French planes, if ever, will only be used in the CT/SEA, for realistic early-war setups. And there are SO many other important planes missing from the planeset as it is, that any French aircraft are so unimportant in comparison to. The IJN has so many holes it's not funny. The LW is missing lots of bombers, the RAF needs early bombers. Many would like to see more light bombers of early types.

That's basically, in a nutshell, why there will be no French fighters.

Right and wrong, there can be late war French planes it's just a question of Paintjob.
The Yak3 in NN colour for example or a P63.

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Originally posted by eskimo2
Were there any BOF French aces?  Anyone have any stats on aircraft destroyed by both sides during the BOF?

eskimo

There were some aces but the way the "Armée de l'air" counted victories was a bit strange

anyway here is a list : http://mapage.noos.fr/papeguay/as.htm

[Pepe]

From what I can recall, Achilles' heel of French Air Force was very similar to their Armoured Forces one: organization.

As far as I know, the French Air Force was subordinated to the ground army, which commanded them in small groups attached to the ground divisions individually, which were managed by a strict bureacracy far away from the frontline.

This produced a very innefficient behaviour, because each tiny piece of the Air Force was "reserved" by the ground officer to meet their division's needs, and forced them to fight in disadvantage most of the times.