From Barbarossa to Odessa (Luftwaffe Strikes Pt 1)

[Juha]

Hello Phil
I generally agree with You with following exceptions, Bf 109F and Ju 88A were better than comparable Soviet aircraft and numerous I-15bis and R-5 a/c were obsolent.
IMHO SB(-2) wasn't as good as Blenheim, that was why Finnish AF equipped its Maritime sqn with them and not with Blenheims. Finns used both and Blenheims were used only in bomber sqns.
And IMHO Spitfire V was better fighter than Yak-1 or early versions of LaGG-3 but not markedly so. But Pe-2, DB-3F/Il-4 and Il-2 were good planes if one had good fighters to escort them.

Juha

[Dénes Bernád]

Very interesting and challenging topic. I will jump in later on.
However, it should be discussed in a separate thread in another sub-forum, not here.

Before that, let's remember that on the Southern Front there were no Yak-1s, Il-2s or Yer-2s at the start of Operation Barbarossa.

There were indeed so-called "new types" (e.g., Pe-2, Su-2), that were equal to most German types in service in mid-1941, but their number was rather small (IIRC, I even gave a percentage of about 25%). More in the new thread.