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Re: Luftwaffe Claims/Losses September '39 - June '40

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Originally Posted by Broncazonk (Post 338522)

I've been working through the history of this and according to Williamson Murry in Strategy for Defeat, from May to September, 1940, the Luftwaffe twin-engine fighter force (Bf 110) lost between 94% - 96% of it's initial aircraft strength, that is: were destroyed from all causes. (In comparison, Ju 87 (Stuka) losses were 50%.)
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The ~95% loss rate [in less than 5-months] on this twin-engine airframe would seem to be clear definitive proof of something. No? I mean, what the hell??
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Why did the RLM/Luftwaffe stick with the Bf 110 day fighter, only to stumble around for several years with the even worse Bf 210 and then go back to the Bf 110?
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A lot of good Luftwaffe pilots died over this absurdity...
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Bronc

You do realise that within that period several hundred Bf 110s were built?

As for this: '...A lot of good Luftwaffe pilots died over this absurdity...', how much do you know about the Bf 110...?

Re: Luftwaffe Claims/Losses September '39 - June '40

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Originally Posted by John Vasco (Post 338540)

You do realize that within that period several hundred Bf 110s were built?

As for this: '...A lot of good Luftwaffe pilots died over this absurdity...', how much do you know about the Bf 110...?

How much do you know about the Bf 110?

Well, I know that 95% of them were destroyed in under 5-months in 1940. I know that...

Bronc