aspqrz02 -> RE: Implausible AI Air Superstacks (8/16/2012 3:22:31 PM)
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Yes, the Germans outflew the Russians right to the end, on a Fighter to Fighter level. Russian Pilots were crap. Poorly trained. Some, those who survived, became good but, even in the last year of the war, the Luftwaffe outperformed the Russians on an individual level ... of course, by then, numbers were telling. One interesting fact to consider ... the Russians often couldn't beat the Germans, but they had access to High Octane fuel (Lend Lease) that enabled them to run away when they knew they were outmatched, and used this to great effect ... probably by this period. The Germans could never match it because producing the 100+ Octane stuff chewed through feedstock like it was going out of fashion ... the 87 Octane stuff the Luftwaffe used was produced because it game the best crossover between quantity and quality. Phil
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