P40's next!

[Slash27]

Lets get back to planes. A-26 anyone?

[storch]

I had a fight in the middle of a furball against a P40 that was very well played.  I was in a 205 and his slow speed fight was phenomenal.  it really depends on who is at the wheel.  i would not have been at all embarrassed to have lost that fight and consider myself lucky to have come out of it even.  S!! mr. skilled P40 tard.  

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Edbert
Could be since the Soviet pilots really were fodder much like their soldiers. I read somewhere that the Luftwaffe had a 8+ to 1 K/D versus the VVS and about a 1 to 1  against USAAF/RAF.

Take it with a grain of salt but some of the posters in this thread seem to know their stuff...
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/about448-0-asc-0.html

That's pretty much what I've read too.  Like the Germans, the Soviets learned about air combat during the SCW but it was all forgotten with the purges.  So when the war broke out, the Germans mostly faced inexperienced and badly trained pilots in obsolete airplanes.  I think the Soviet main fighter was the I-16, obsolete by 1941-42 standards.  Germans described them as brave but lacking in both skill and inititiave.  So it's easy to figure out why they were cannon fodder during the early years on the Eastern Front.  On the other hand, just like the Knitwits, the Soviets figured out numbers can over come skill any day.


ack-ack

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by storch
I had a fight in the middle of a furball against a P40 that was very well played.  I was in a 205 and his slow speed fight was phenomenal.  it really depends on who is at the wheel.  i would not have been at all embarrassed to have lost that fight and consider myself lucky to have come out of it even.  S!! mr. skilled P40 tard.  

Sounds like a Bud Light commercial to me.............

[Magoo]

Sounds like a Bud Light commercial to me.............

That's too funny:lol

BTW, I believe it was common among American pilots to refer to all Japanese fighters as "Zeros". I'm guessing they knew they were technically wrong but it just sort of the way it was done. It similar to what we do down south when we call every kind of Soda a "Coke".

So the the mistake is to take them literally when they talk about shooting down "Zeros".  I also have read several articles that state that the AVG never faced a Zero.

Magoo