[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Randomizer

Let us not forget the ridiculously over-drilled Prussian goose-stepping automaton of 1914 or the inept Jap, night blind, incapable of handling complex machinery and flying pathetic copies of Western aircraft in 1941.

Warplanes tend to be pampered and the fact that these have been flying without any manufacturer support for over 40-years should say something regarding core avionics and crew competence.

We mock them at our peril and underestimating a potential enemy has never been a good idea as the above examples show. They may well be paper-airplanes but it's a tremendously bad idea to treat that assumption as fact.

Well said