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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Swamphen" (Feb 25th 2007, 11:47pm)
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Fyrwulf" (Feb 27th 2007, 7:36am)
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Originally posted by Fyrwulf
That order was seriously downsized, to (I think) 192 aircraft. That was probably done because of the availability of this new design to be produced indigenously without licensing fees.
Oh, and for the love of God, would you all quit harping on that order? FYI, Switzerland had in 1945 a population of 4.41 million and an air force that had 454 frontline fighters. In 1934 WesWorld Brazil has a population of 36.4 million and maybe a couple hundred fighters fit for frontline duty.
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Originally posted by Hood
RA, I've seen a photo on a forum supposedly of the twin engined P-40 but it seemed a fake. There is no proof it ever was flown if built at all.
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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
One word, Economy.
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Originally posted by Fyrwulf
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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
One word, Economy.
Which is exactly my point. There's no exact data, but at a guess I'd say Switzerland's GDP in 1945 was roughly $35,000 per person, or a total GDP (given the previously mentioned population) of $154,350,000,000. Given a GDP per capita in 1934 of about $6,000 and the previously mentioned population, Brazil has a total economy of 218,400,000,000. Assuming, for the sake of simplicity, that they both spend 10% of their GDP on defense, that results in defense budgets of $15,435,000,000 and $21,840,000,000 respectively.
It's all very well to wave your hand and say "economy" as if it's some Jedi trick, but in the face of hard numbers it doesn't exactly work all the time. Frankly, I see no problem with Brazil having around the same number of frontline fighters in the 1930s with a larger total economy that the Swiss had in 1945 (when, I shouldn't have to say, fighters are more advanced and more expensive.)
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