First fa-22 fighters delivered to langley

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by smileyman

I think it woulda been a bad mother with just experienced pilots. Too bad we had Japan by the jugular by then and were already bombing the industrial complex.

They would have required experience pilots (oops Japan let all their experienced officers die in the field without transferring the knowledge gained to new pilots..scratch that idea)
Quality manufacturing (oops scratch that)
Quality support system (and how many serviceable aircraft languished on Japanese airbases because support crews couldn't manage decent field repair?)

Japan lacked 2 key elements from midwar on...good pilots and good crews to support the AC.

Even if we were at stalemate at the time of the Shinden, Japan doomed itself from the start in terms of command and control and the way their forces were structured.