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Also, don't forget pilot training costs - i was quoted a figue ten years ago that it cost the USN 2 million dollars to train a pilot. Sure, you could skimp on training, but then you end up withncannon fodder like Yui's flight, and this isn't a war where you can afford to use cannon fodder.
Also, i have to wonder if part of the problems the Imperial Japanese were having during the Fall of Kyoto is due to the fact that for the most part, their forces are using 1st-gen TSFs, while the rest of the industrialised world is using primarily 2nd-gen ans 2.5 gen TSFs, and working hard to field 3rs Gen TSFs in large numbers (IIRC the Type-94 Shiranui was the first 3rd gen TSF, but the F-22 is deployed in larger numbers).
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