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A-10 Ancestors
I once spoke to civilian engineer who had been employeed by the Air Force in the mid- to late 60s. One of his assignments was the USAF team which developed the AX requirements, issued to industry oround 1970.
He said that the USAF had a difficult time finding any operational research or hard data about aircraft vs armor. To overcome this, the team interviewed ex- Luftwaffe pilots with experience in air to ground warfare on the Eastern Front.
The AX competition was won by Republic, and later turned into the A-10. So the Warthog is a descendant of the Ju-87.
This gentleman also said some of the ex-Luftwaffe pilots were "unrepentant Nazis".
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