Air ace life spans

[ObssesedNuker]

I'm sure you know how terrible the Russian training was and the number of terrible planes they threw at experience better equipped German fighters. It would be watching North Korea throwing MiG-21s at F-22s, Eurofighters, Rafale, or Su-30MK fighters. It would be lambs to a slaughter.

This really only applies to 1941. Over the course of 1942 the Red Air Force, like the Red Army, turned itself around and reforged itself. By the time 1943 rolled around, the Soviets had gotten their training regimen in order and were fielding advanced aircraft as good (and in some areas, better) then what the Germans were fielding. This was what allowed them to seize air superiority in the battles during the winter of '42/'43 and the summer of '43. What really allowed for the German Aces to get high numbers, aside from their initial superiority in aircraft, training, and tactics in the first three years of the war against numerically superior enemies, was that they were simply kept in combat until they died instead of being rotated home like their enemies.

 

[Opanashc]

What really allowed for the German Aces to get high numbers, aside from their initial superiority in aircraft, training, and tactics in the first three years of the war against numerically superior enemies, was that they were simply kept in combat until they died instead of being rotated home like their enemies.

It also came to bite them in the butt, during situations like "there is no air support - the pilot is sick".