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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Before we sing the Bismarck's merits too highly let's not forget this mighty mountain of steel was disabled and rendered unsteerable by one torpedo from an obsolete slow-moving biplane.  Such vulnerability to aircraft pretty much ended the period of German warships acting as surface raiders |
Point well taken! The Axis powers would have been well advised to create better counter-biplane technologies and tactics. Who would've thunk it?
