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Originally Posted by Jens
I have done some research about Kursk air battle and my estimations were as follow:
1. German fighters overclaim 1:3 but if Flak is considered in all ways even higher.
2. Soviet fighters overclaim 1:8 up to 1:10.
2. For the soviet side i haven't any reasons for this quotas found. Maybe LW documents are not correct, since they show quite different figures and also german POW said other figures.
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I think, here is two main points, why VVS has higher overclaims rates as the other(beside the assumtion, that LW documents is not full)
First, the high own losses forced the regiment commander and other pilot claims highest possible LW losses, otherwise they could have problem with their higher commanders(own losses w/o own success never look well)
And the second, if we say, that VVS at that time has many young inexpierience pilot, they could not really say, if enemy plane was really shot down. The correct result evaluation of the shooting and fight(and the fights was very hard), belongs to the pilot skills, as well the start and landings.