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I thought we were making fun about Bundeswehr

See now I'm conflicted, I don't wanna derail the thread, but I have a few issues with your statement.
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Fuck!
Okay here we go.
It didn't help to put good weather pilots in a plane that was forced into a mission profile out of it's comfort zone... and then to box them into small training areas, completely different from their flying school environments.
> Bundeswehr had little need for such a plane
West Germany was the crushing zone for a conventional red invasion over a large stretch of central Europe. If they had come in, they'd need interceptors against bombers and speed would have absolutely aided their survivability, specially against the Mig21 and AA of it's time. They had a lighting fast turnaround time, were also really easy to maintain. Ground attack capabilities were compromised, sure, but they were there and this kind of warfare isn't symmetrical. The real problems I see, are start and landing speeds and that falling back to France or Britain probably would have been problematic because they had different weapons and airframes.

But they would definitely have carried their weight.