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By: 12th April 2016 at 08:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Only one to have had a definitive technical superiority was right the one you have forgotten.
Luftstreitkräfte.
By: 12th April 2016 at 11:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-At the risk of falling to cliches. Each other.
Both organisations need to secure funding from a finite pot. (And that's not a problem for democratic nations only)
At the beginning of WW2 The Imperial Japanese Navy certainly had a technical and competency-based advantage but Imperial Japan was never able to compete industrially.
If (and thank God it didn't) the Cold War had ever become a real shooting war then Soviet-era manufacturing capacity and numbers would have posed a genuine existential threat that I don't think that we in the West* could have met.
*which would pretty much have meant the USAf and USN with a few supporting players
For the all of short-sighted, expensive folly that nuclear weapons represent their very threat did at least prevent such an air war ever starting.
By: 12th April 2016 at 13:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-At the risk of falling to cliches. Each other.Both organisations need to secure funding from a finite pot. (And that's not a problem for democratic nations only)
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Well said, that and Congress. Since 1990, Congress might be the US militaries worse opponent: stretching out development, adding requirements, constantly pushing acquisition programs to the right, acting outranged when programs suffer a Nunn-McCurdy breach after procurement is reduced.
By: 12th April 2016 at 13:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Imperial Japan
Luftwaffe
North Korean
North Vietnamese
Iraqi
Serbian
In that order.
By: 18th April 2016 at 10:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Luftwaffe ?
By: 18th April 2016 at 12:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Luftwaffe ?
Given the loss rates of the 8th air force and the comparable or more advanced technology in many cases of the Luftwaffe I can't see how it could be anyone else.
By: 18th April 2016 at 18:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Well given the USAF didn't exist at the time, I guess it's North Vietnam :angel:
By: 18th April 2016 at 20:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Well given the USAF didn't exist at the time, I guess it's North Vietnam :angel:
Are you saying United States of America did not have Air Force during WW 2 ?
:D
By: 18th April 2016 at 21:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Army Air Force
By: 18th April 2016 at 23:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-And the USN's air force, but the USAAF (established 1941) operated pretty much independently from the army during WW2.
By: 18th April 2016 at 23:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-USAF or USAAF, it doesn't matter. During World War Two the AAF had complete command and control of all aviation assets within the Army.
In its expansion and conduct of the war, the AAF became more than just an arm of the greater organization. By the end of World War II, the Army Air Forces had become virtually an independent service. By regulation and executive order, it was a subordinate agency of the War Department (as were the Army Ground Forces and the Army Service Forces) tasked only with organizing, training, and equipping combat units, and limited in responsibility to the continental United States. In reality, Headquarters AAF controlled the conduct of all aspects of the air war in every part of the world, determining air policy and issuing orders without transmitting them through the Army Chief of Staff. This "contrast between theory and fact is...fundamental to an understanding of the AAF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces
By: 20th April 2016 at 19:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-No doubt the four independent air arms and the rocket forces of the Soviets were the biggest threat. They just didn't fight directly. I have zero doubt their willingness to fight.
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By: Y-20 Bacon - 12th April 2016 at 04:55
was it the
Luftwaffe?
Imperial Japan?
North Korean Air Force?
North Vietnamese Air Force?
Iraqi Air Force?
Serbian Air Force?
Others?