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[Furio]

Originally Posted by JoeA

Furio that is nonsense

Maybe is nonsense for you, but is my opinion, and I think that is alleged enough.
Capture equipment is not what matter per se. It’s simply a measure that someone is losing a war and someone other is winning, and the same can be said for air combat kills.
I’ll try to simplify and to explain better my line of thought.
I am a fighter pilot. I fail to intercept enemy bombers than bomb my home base, destroying our aircraft on the ground. My responsibility.
I am a bomber pilot. I fail to destroy a group of enemy tanks that, free to advance, capture my home base. My responsibility.
I am a fighter pilot. I fail to stop enemy bombers that destroy my country’s fuel reserves, emptying our fighters’ tanks. My responsibility.
In real Eastern front warfare, things were more complex and more intertwined, but my simple examples seem to me not less true. Sturmoviki and Ju87 worked closely with infantry and tanks, being instrumental in stopping an attack or breaking through enemy lines.