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Originally Posted by U-Bones
Imagine a skeet shooting contest where your opponents get to shoot at a stationary target. Then imagine that you are the stationary target.
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Excuse me if I'm wrong... but to attack me, they have to be coming towards me. Aside from not having to shoot more above the plane, it's effectively a stationary target.
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Originally Posted by Uboat.net
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125 aircraft shot down by 97 individual U-boats for the loss of 31 U-boats either sunk during the attack or due to being located by other forces shortly afterwards and sunk. One source says that RAF Coastal Command (U-boat hunters) lost 700 aircraft (badly damaged, shot down and paid off - not all to U-boats of course) and sank 220 U-boats during the war. I've been unable to verify the RAF losses but the U-boat figure is about right it seems. These figures show the immense effort put out by the British to hunt down the U-boats and almost all the aircraft successes took place in 1942 and later.
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Originally Posted by Uboat.net
Aircraft250Includes all ship-based aircraft
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So... almost exactly a 2:1 ratio of lost to shot down with 22% (this is rounded up from 21.6%) of all Uboat sinkings coming from aircraft.
Uboats lost - 1154
Uboats lost from aircraft - 250
250/1154=21.6%
It would be nice to have figures of how many aircraft were, total, sent out on hunter missions so we can see what percentage of aircraft were shot down by Uboats.
I still think a Uboat would win if one-on-one against an aircraft. No reason they should be nearly indestructable.