This might have been more convincing if the wish was for documented field mods purchased with perks. The luft had many kits and the 56th's engines were running at the specs of the P47M's from the factory due to tinkering from the support crews. Even Japanese planes had a few aircraft versions that were well up-gunned. Might be an opportunity for PTAB's and an Hs129 with BK7.5, or those Hell Kitties with two 20mm. Or that 110 with the ventral BK3.7.
A lot of this comes under meh, boredom has set in for some vets....
Some players would find ways with this to abuse the rest of us into demanding astronomical perk prices to make them very rare in the MA. While others it would be the illusion of getting around AH is a meritocracy of hitching up your big boy pants and giving your sister back her panties. Anything to kick others in the nutz from behind and get away with it to crow on ch200.
And then that would no longer be Aces High, just another teeny bopper game full of sissies.