by modern standards weren't most wwII airplanes prototypes anyway?
Modern? You could apply it to the planes of the time as well... I guess the answer to your question is.. yep most planes were made better, advanced in some form or another till they were either stopped from doing so or the war was over.
I don't no quite how to spin this for
you.... I will just say 700 D.520 vs. a single #ed plane. Hundreds of kills vs. 10-13.
As far as
you are concerned
your country was stiffled at the beginning of the war and could no longer produce planes they way they wished. There were lots of plans for the Dewoitine. Like the 525, 551 and 560. Who knows by the end of the war there may have been a 575 or 600.
Same with the M.S.406
"In 1939, Hispano started prototype deliveries of the new Hispano-Suiza 12Z engine of 969.4 kW (1,300 hp). One was fitted to a modified M.S.410 to create the M.S.450, giving dramatic improvements in performance, especially at altitude. However the engine did not enter production before France fell, and the similarly modified Dewoitine D.520 (the D.523/D.551) was considered a better design for the engine anyway."
M.S.450
or the VG33 with the VG-40 Merlin powered or the VG-50 Allison 1710-39
I could go on...yours was not the only country..
On the other hand we're being told by Moot that poor Germany was being stiffled towards the end of the war and could hardly get any version of any of the 152's they had planed for development to fruition ...but ..we have been allowed a plane with 16 or less total models of the type in combat <prototypes included> in the game because it was part of the "Big" picture. The reason... it was easy to do, a little stretch here a few bumps here....Wallah. Even tho most of the Ta-152 were from A-3 airframes which we don't even have in the game.
We're also being told by Krusty and Karnak that some planes that saw greater service, made in greater numbers, saw more combat and had way more impact on/in the war, but ..are still not made in enough numbers to be considered in the game or are too insignificant in the rolls that they played to be included in the game..like say Australia's Boomerang or the Mustang Mk1, P51 or P-51A etc....
Mean while 240, 109F-4/R1 came off the assembly line and they are just not acceptable. I can't fathom why the bomb and gondolas have not been replaced on the 109F-4 in any of the last patches that have come out since the scenario management was redone. Spite!
Ack has said that our model here in the game is an H1. Most H-1's were either crashed on test/training flights, crashed during shuttling of aircraft between air bases while retreating, blown up by the Eighth Air Force, or the Germans themselves as they didn't want them captured or not finished.. not to mention there were only 13 trained Ta-152 combat pilots to fly the thing.
With approximately 43 H-1 produced, some of which were retained to as prototypes/development for later models of the 152 like the C-3, H-10 and H-11,
I'm not asking it be removed, I just think its wrong for it to be here before allot of more deserving planes.