Chris said:
Well, in a stright fight like the air battles of 1914-18, you might be right, however..:
Chris
-The RAF has a place to defend. The F117s have to come to that place to be any good. That minimises the speed advantage
A Hurricane or a Spitfire simply wouldn't have been able to catch the F117. If by chance they could have, the chances of shooting the F117 down with their .30s is minimal to say the least...
-The RAF had experience with Combat Air Patrols and watching posts. Once it became ovious that Radar was useless, the RAF would use the old early warning stations to give the raid warnings instead.
Not if the F117 was beetling along at Nape-Of-Earth they wouldn't. And even if some HomeGuard did catch it zipping past, it would be over its target before the old geezer could call in the sighting.
-The F117s would be irreplacable. The RAF can replace every plane it loses.
This is true, but if the Germans are careful there should be no reason they would lose their F117s
-How are the F117s armed? Unless they have an unlimited supply of missiles, they'll run out in the first battle, and if the germans can't replace the bullets, they'll soon run out of guns as well.
They wouldn't have to fire their guns (do they have guns?) because they wouldn't have to fight the Hurricanes and Spitfires because of their speed (see above) and missiles probably wouldn't work on prop aircraft anyway. And I'm sure the bombs could be designed to fit the appropriate racks so they wouldn't run out of bombs to drop on Fighter Command bases.
And that would be their job... To knock out Fighter Command, which is what the BoB was all about...
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