Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: mjackson.wbst147@xerox.com Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Expensive fighters Message-ID: <1991Jun7.072402.8596@amd.com> Date: 3 Jun 91 12:26:03 GMT Sender: military@amd.com Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 28 Approved: military@amd.com From: mjackson.wbst147@xerox.com Takashi Iwasawa writes: > [Better equipment enabling new pilots to survive initial mistakes] > is important because the losses peak in the early combats. . . . In > effect, training IS very important, but the best training is actual > combat, provided the pilot survives. I was under the impression that simulator technology had made a serious run at closing the gap between training and combat (assuming, of course, that the trainers are correct in their expectations of the opponent's performance and tactics). > [I]n the Battle of Britain, many RAF fighter pilots had as much time in > the air as their Luftwaffe counterparts (after all, the Luftwaffe didn't > even exist until Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles). I have a vague memory that the Germans had a much earlier secret deal with the Soviet Union, in which the Luftwaffe cadres gave training (and equipment?) to the Soviet AF in return for use of airspace for their own training. True or not? [Answers to the last paragraph by email or in soc.history, please! -- CDR] Mark