The originators of the most of the modern military aviation developments are
Germans and Brits,thats the reason why their names comes up frequently during
discussions.

There's also a subset of trolls who are interested in bashing the
U.S., and the best or only thing they can think of is to compare it to
the German military it defeated in the field. This originated with the
communists in the late 1940s / 1950s and soon acquired a life of its
own. You can see a bunch of such threads on this newsgroup at the
moment, unless you've been active with your troll-killing filters.

Sometimes they are even funny, as when a troll pointed out that the
current U.S. kevlar helmet resembles nothing more than a (gasp!)
German coal-scuttle helmet as it developed in WWI (not in the Nazi
era).

I'm pleased at least that someone finally thought to put the word
"German" in the thread. The notion that the German alliance of
1939-1945 was purely a Nazi phenomenon is as nutty as saying that they
were defeated by an alliance of Communists and Democrats.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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