Building the Red Baron’s Fokker Dr 1 - Rare Archive Footage and Flight Display
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I wonder with their very slow speed, how a modern jet fighter could cope with going up against a swam of these - say on an equivalent thrust rating.... 100 of these = 1 jet = same thrust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_Po-2
Luftwaffe fighters found it extremely hard to shoot down the Kukuruznik because of two main factors: the pilots flew at treetop level where they were hard to see or engage and the stall speed of both the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was similar to the U-2s maximum speed, making it difficult for the fighters to keep a Po-2 in weapons range for an adequate period of time.