Oct 19, 2001 Find the best PC Flight games on GameSpot, including Flight Simulator 2002 and IL-2 Sturmovik! All Games News. European Air War doesn't push the state of the art, but it excels at good.
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War Thunder is a next generation MMO combat game dedicated to World War II military aviation, armored vehicles, and fleets. You will take part in all of the major combat battles, fighting with real players all over the world.War Thunder offers a highly detailed and personalized aviation experience, giving players access to hundreds models of planes with detailed cockpits, dozens of upgradeable weapons, and flying skills that can be honed and improved with each mission. Thanks to the game’s painstaking attention to detail, you’ll truly feel like a World War II fighter pilot as you plunge into battle.The genuine World War II experience isn’t limited to the skies.
The massive historical battles featured in War Thunder cannot be fought by aviation alone, so the game will also expose players to combat on land and at sea.
Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939In September 1939 the, namely Great Britain, France, and, were together superior in industrial resources, population, and military manpower, but the German Army, or, because of its armament, training, and fighting spirit, was the most efficient and effective fighting force for its size in the world. The index of military strength in September 1939 was the number of divisions that each nation could mobilize. Against Germany’s 100 infantry divisions and six armoured divisions, France had 90 divisions in metropolitan France, Great Britain had 10 infantry divisions, and Poland had 30 infantry divisions, 12, and one armoured brigade (Poland had also 30 reserve infantry divisions, but these could not be mobilized quickly). A division contained from 12,000 to 25,000 men. It was the qualitative superiority of the German infantry divisions and the number of their armoured divisions that made the difference in 1939. The firepower of a German infantry division far exceeded that of a French, British, or Polish division; the standard German division included 442, 135, 72 guns, and 24 howitzers.
Allied divisions had a firepower only slightly greater than that of World War I. Germany had six armoured divisions in September 1939; the Allies, though they had a large number of tanks, had no armoured divisions at that time.The six armoured, or, divisions of the Wehrmacht some 2,400 tanks. And though Germany would subsequently expand its forces during the first years of the war, it was not the number of tanks that Germany had (the Allies had almost as many in September 1939) but the fact of their being organized into divisions and operated as such that was to prove decisive. In accordance with the doctrines of General, the German tanks were used in massed formations in conjunction with motorized artillery to punch holes in the enemy line and to isolate segments of the enemy, which were then surrounded and captured by motorized German infantry divisions while the tanks ranged forward to repeat the process: deep drives into enemy territory by panzer divisions were thus followed by mechanized infantry and foot soldiers. These tactics were supported by that attacked and disrupted the enemy’s supply and communications lines and spread panic and confusion in its rear, thus further paralyzing its defensive capabilities. Mechanization was the key to the German, or “lightning war,” so named because of the unprecedented speed and mobility that were its characteristics.
Tested and well-trained in maneuvers, the German panzer divisions a force with no equal in Europe. German aircraft production by year yearcombat typesother types39351,822,532,653,354,7333,562The of engines and gave the Luftwaffe an advantage over its opponents. Germany had an operational force of 1,000 and 1,050 in September 1939. The Allies actually had more planes in 1939 than Germany did, but their strength was made up of many different types, some of them obsolescent. The corresponding table shows the number of first-line military aircraft available to the Allies at the outbreak of war. Bismarck battleship The Bismarck shortly after commissioning in 1940. Courtesy of the Marineschule Murwik, Flensburg, Ger., 1918–39When ended, the experience of it seemed to the power of the defensive over the offensive.
It was widely believed that a superiority in numbers of at least three to one was required for a successful offensive. Defensive concepts underlay the construction of the between France and Germany and of its lesser counterpart, the, in the interwar years. Yet by 1918 both of the requirements for the supremacy of the offensive were at hand:. The battles of (1917) and (1918) had proved that when tanks were used in masses, with surprise, and on firm and open terrain, it was possible to break through any system. Maginot Line Main entrance to the Schoenenbourg Fort on the Maginot Line, Bas-Rhin department, Alsace region, France. Watkins VThe Germans learned this crucial, though subtle, lesson from World War I. The Allies on the other hand felt that their victory confirmed their methods, weapons, and leadership, and in the interwar period the French and British armies were slow to introduce new weapons, methods, and doctrines.
Consequently, in 1939 the did not have a single armoured division, and the French tanks were distributed in small packets throughout the infantry divisions. The Germans, by contrast, began to develop large tank formations on an effective basis after their rearmament program began in 1935.In the air the technology of war had also changed radically between 1918 and 1939. Had increased in size, speed, and range, and for operations at sea, were developed that were capable of accompanying the fastest surface ships.
Among the new types of planes developed was the, a plane designed for accurate low-altitude bombing of enemy strong points as part of the tank-plane-infantry combination. Fast low-wing fighters were developed in all countries; these aircraft were essentially flying platforms for eight to 12 installed in the wings.
Light and medium were also developed that could be used for the strategic bombardment of cities and military strongpoints. The threat of bomber attacks on both military and civilian targets led directly to the development of in. Radar made it possible to determine the location, the distance, and the height and speed of a distant aircraft no matter what the weather was. By December 1938 there were five radar stations established on the coast of England, and 15 additional stations were begun. So, when war came in September 1939, Great Britain had a warning chain of radar stations that could tell when hostile planes were approaching.
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