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With the Chosen Air Force virtually wiped out I'm sure China can spare a few fighter squadrons.
Well, America may be at peace but their production rates are far higher than I think you give them credit for. And frankly, I doubt that China can react to any perceived threat from the south when it has a full scale war on its hands in the north.
[*]In Q4/43, the Indochinese Air Defense Group orders two hundred more MB.1052D Milan fighters and a hundred and fifty trainer aircraft (a mix of MS.472 Vanneaus and MS.730 Alcyons) to strengthen their air defenses.
[*]In Q4/43, construction of new airfields in northern and central Indochina begins in relative secrecy. These are mostly secondary airfields to scatter fighters, or dedicated bases to base interceptors.
[*]In Q2/44, the French Air Force orders 264 B-32 Dominator bombers from the United States. Half of the bombers will be delivered to G.B. II/18 based in Nha Trang and G.B. II/23 based at Anh Son. See French Q2/44 news.
I'm curious to see how fast these huge orders will be fullfilled.
On the flip side, Chinese pilots have combat experience, while Japanese pilots do not. I think Chinese pilot losses have been relatively light, with most losses coming from the ground forces.
Production rates for the US are set by how much the French want to pay. The US can hire more workers, work 5 shifts and crank out the order in a month if France wants to pay a large premium to do so. Regular production (and regular prices) is 25 planes a month of which France would receive 10. The US is spending half what it spent IOTL on the US Navy, 10 times what it did on the US Army and quadruple on the USAAF compared to its peacetime numbers IOTL
I think it would be more like like this, with the shifts overlapping each other rather than the shifts being one after another. A simple example of five 10 hour shifts (with 'O' representing one working hour and 'X' one non-working hour) over a 24 hour period:
OOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOXXXXX
OXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOO
At any given time, at least two shifts are working with each other. In this case, 5 x 10 = 24 hours.
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