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Most Overrated aircraft of WWII?

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  1. RichTO90

    RichTO90 Well-Known Member

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    [SIZE=9pt]Il-2 Losses Total/1941/1942/1943/1944/1945[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=9pt]VVS
    Air combat: 2,557/47/169/1,090/882/369
    AA fire: 4,679/101/203/1,468/1,859/1,048
    On the ground: 109/13/14/40/34/8
    Unknown causes/did not return (combat): 3,414/372/1,290/917/569/266
    Total combat losses: 10,759/533/1,676/3,535/3,344/1,691 (28.9% of all Soviet aircraft losses)
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    [SIZE=9pt]Naval Aviation combat losses: 807/0/66/128/362/251[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=9pt]Non-combat losses (approximation from rounded totals) 12,014/567/858/3,537/5,194/1,858[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=9pt]Total losses: 23,580/1,100/2,600/7,200/8,900/3,800[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=9pt]Losses as a percentage of average annual on hand strength was roughly[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=9pt]1941 – 73.3%[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=9pt]1942 – 34.2%[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=9pt]1943 – 45.0%[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=9pt]1944 – 46.6%[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=9pt]1945 – 27.3%

    7,837 pilots and gunners of Il-2 were recorded as killed during the war (gunners at 7 times the rate of pilots)

    There was one Il-2 loss per 53.5 combat sorties, compared to one Yak or La fighter loss per 104.5 sorties or one Il-4 or Pe-2 bomber loss per ~ 80 sorties

    90% of damaged Il-2 were repaired
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    [SIZE=9pt]34,943 Il-2s were produced during the war plus 1,211 Il-2U trainers; a grand total of 36,154.[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=9pt]Thus, the overall loss rate of the Il-2 and Il-2U was roughly 65.2%...nearly two-thirds. [/SIZE]
     

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