[Pursuivant]

Furio has a point in that Rudel was at least partially a creation of Nazi propaganda. And, his kill claims might have been inflated, either for propaganda reasons or just due to "fog of war."

Are there non-biased, post-WW2 analyses of Rudel's war record?

My guess is that there's probably a lot of truth to the legend, but I'm not going to take Rudel's word for all of it. In particular, his kill claims for ground vehicles might be badly overstated.

RPS69 makes a great point that the Stuka G was a very rare bird. Certainly it was a specialist's tool, introduced at a time when Germany was rapidly running to out of qualified combat pilots.

When we can create missions with hundreds of aircraft of the same type with a few button clicks we can forget how scarce some planes actually were.