Actually, it turns out the best strategy is to strip the plane's armor - light planes need less fuel, which makes them even lighter, and that makes them faster. Fast planes spend less time in enemy airspace, on top of being harder to hit.
The principles are usually about the machine itself, rather than overall war strategy, but sure, if you can do something without risking stuff and people, that's better.
also... the Mossie used less critical resources which meant they could build more of them. and the plywood construction may have been harder to spot on radar.
Here's my strategic assessment: the best option is to large scale infiltrate your enemy before air raids and let the infiltrators put potatos into the air defence systems barrel's. 🥔 gg, ez.
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Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 128 pts · 270d
What we aren't seeing is the scraps that didn't make it into the cookie cutter
y0kai@anarchist.nexus · 43 pts · 270d
just armor the whole plane dammit they're already heavier than air!
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 270d
Actually, it turns out the best strategy is to strip the plane's armor - light planes need less fuel, which makes them even lighter, and that makes them faster. Fast planes spend less time in enemy airspace, on top of being harder to hit.
FishFace@piefed.social · 27 pts · 270d
The survivability onion: 1 don't get seen, 2 don't get hit, 3 don't get damaged, 4 don't get killed
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 270d
You forgot zero: don't be there.
FishFace@piefed.social · 10 pts · 270d
The principles are usually about the machine itself, rather than overall war strategy, but sure, if you can do something without risking stuff and people, that's better.
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 270d
I mean, you could argue that "spend less time in enemy territory" counts for this.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 270d
Or: Desert?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
negative one: don't be
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 269d
That's the tactic my goth girlfriend employees. It has its downsides.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
Aw fuck I just realized I'm my wife's goth girlfriend I feel so fetishized
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
Negative two: don't think
::: spoiler huh? Well... This relies on the quote "I think, therefore I am," but if I'd led with that, I'd be putting Descartes before the horse. :::
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 270d
also... the Mossie used less critical resources which meant they could build more of them. and the plywood construction may have been harder to spot on radar.
kossa@feddit.org · 4 pts · 269d
Here's my strategic assessment: the best option is to large scale infiltrate your enemy before air raids and let the infiltrators put potatos into the air defence systems barrel's. 🥔 gg, ez.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 16 pts · 270d
Or make the whole thing out of whatever the black box recorder is made of. Problem solved!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 270d
i read in a science article that they're made of this weird thing called atoms. can we put some of those in planes?
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 270d
We ran out.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 269d
Just slice thinner
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 270d
that's exactly why birds evolved to have scales!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
But...ohhhh...
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 10 pts · 270d
Goes great with the Sadam Hussein hiding spot cookies
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 270d
I'm glad they armored the parts that made it back with sprinkles.
NichtElias@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 270d
The ones with the sprinkles on the engines and cockpit must be extra tasty
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 270d
Age of Oddish with a Piplup profile pic. Yeah, I'd trust them.