From troubled beginnings to wartime legends, these aircraft overcame mechanical, technological and tactical failures to achieve combat success.
Warfare is the great laboratory for tactics and equipment; virtually nothing that enters combat remains the same. Strategy, tactics, and machinery evolve as deficiencies are discovered and remedied. This process is tedious, destructive, and tragic. However, the knowledge gleaned from warfare leads to advancements, and for the apt pupils of this process, future tactical successes and strategic lessons are learned and implemented.
