Surprising quality gun camera footage from japanese theatre.

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Originally Posted by winny

If there are no planes left then the pilot is irrelevant. This is what is known as Air superiority. There will always be people to put into planes.

Would you throw a grenade into a barn full of unarmed POW soilders?

Or execute anyone and everyone who surrendered?

Talk all you like about 'kill everyone who could possibly kill you at somepoint in the future' that argument could also be used to justify bombing children. It's a flawed argument.

Yeah, air superiority, and part of that is forcing the enemy to use unskilled badly trained pilots. Quality counts too, as you know for sure.

And I am not talking about killing everyone. I have been specifically talking about eliminating the enemy. The enemy means enemy soldiers. Eliminating includes killing, supressing, capturing, whatever to make them not a threat. Forcing an enemy pilot to bail out is like forcing him to do a tactical retreat. Definetly he is not eliminated if bailed out over his lands. He is shooting at you, your friends, and your countrymen next day like in Battle of Britain.


Edit: And if we take "honour" into this, I would be interested to know what kind of honour standards Japanese had. Also I am interested of Polish pilots. Why they fought so mercilessly. At least there is no way I could say they were dishonourable right away. Maybe they had standards like "no mercy untill it is over".


Edit: If it would not be bad for the population inside the genre and if my current squadron would allow I would start fer sure a "chute shooters club" squadron


Edit: Will someone agro if I say "i lol when I shoot a chute" Such a pity I can't go taunt the squadron I am at war with