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Re: Unresponsive VVS.
In other words, Nifty, you are saying that day bombers without escort or in conditions where they do not enjoy local air superiority, are vulnerable to fighters.
This is true but irrelevant in 1944 after the USAAF's Thunderbolts and Mustangs had achieved air superiority over Europe by destroying the GAF.
The British Ju-87 could then have done its accurate work unhindered by enemy fighters, and the British Il-2 would have been more effective than Typhoon and Spitfire because of its resistance to FLAK.
In any case, 2TAF's equipment proved not only to be inaccurate but also deathtraps. So much so that in early March 1945, 2TAF drastically curtailed its fighter-bomber activities - as we have seen in the matter of the Rhine bridges at Wesel - because of high losses from FLAK.
AFAIK the VVS with the right equipment never restricted its activities.
Tony
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