Brewster Buffalo
How comes Finland was able to use the Brewster Buffalo in combat when no other nation could?
"Regarded as a death-trap by American and British forces, the Brewster Buffalo was revered in Finland for its role in their fight against Soviet forces."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fins-pride-in-the-fighter-plane-that-would-not-die-500248.html
in all honestly with you, the russians had the worlds largest air force in 1940 (circa 12,000+) yet many of them were biplanes from just after WW1, in fact the Russians didn't get a decent fighter into the air until mid 1943 in addition to that the Soviet air force suffered very badly in Stalin's purges and all its most experienced leaders and pilots being 'put against the wall'
the result was for most of the war and certainly throughout the finnish war the soviet air force was lead by inexperienced officers or politically appointed idiots, who used tactics that were considered outdated by the end of WW1, in addition to that and thanks to the purges and the rubbish they were expected to fly the Soviet air force was the least effective branch of service during the war, it constantly had morale that dragged on the floor
the net result for the Russian air force was a disaster, first the finns flying rubbish (yet at the same time more modern aircraft), flown by experienced motivated men with high morale. smashed them up
Then the highly professional and experienced Germans in modern fast aircraft came along and destroyed them (8,000 soviet aircraft lost in the first WEEK of the German invasion)
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