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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
I do not know what Churchill tank has to Airacobra, but there is no doubt that licence production was not possible in the UK for technical reasons. The aircraft is overestimated and Soviet data clearly show it was no surgical hit and run aircraft. Apart of that one must have in mind that British industry was not that very modern and it was not capable to build aircraft in demanded quantities, so RAF relied on large part on US deliveries.
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I seem to remember hearing that Beaverbrook and Stalin discussed an IL-2 production licence during a Kremlin dinner in October 1941. Do you know about that?
In any case, why did the Russians, and particular Stalin, have such faith in the aircraft? And weren't most of them destroyed by LW fighters rather than Flak?
31st July 2007, 21:26
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