Re: FT-Fighters

It was dive bombers that came up after the torpedo planes were
slaughtered by the CAP. Oddly, the dive bombers came in through the
IJN's radar blind spot; an extra piece of luck rarely mentioned.

> ------------ Original Message -----------
> From: Bif Smith <bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:29:03 +0100
> 
> Reading the discussions on the list about fighters having human pilots
or
> AI`s, I wish to piont out that a human pilot makes mistakes that can
end
> up
> being benificial that a AI wouldn`t make. As a example, think of the
> battle
> of midway, when the USA fighters attacked the Japanise carriers. The
> carriers defended themselves against the attackeds, and when driven
off
> landed the plains to rearm and refuel. At this piont, a flight of
torpedo
> (or was it dive bombers, I forget) fighters that had got lost on the
> outward
> leg of the jurney and were returning to home, came across the carriers
> while
> they were vulnerable, and the rest is history.
> 
> BIF
> 
> "Yorkshire born, yorkshire bred,
> strong in arms, thick in head"
> 
> 
> PS-DS has fighters, I think FT has paracite ships (at 100 tonnes,
they`re
> too large to be fighters to me <G>).
> 
>