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[coleslaw35]

well, i do genuinely believe the fiberglass is worth it

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to trash you or your design but like, I heavily doubt it's going to win. Everyone is so focused on the Mosquito and the YellowJacket.

[evilcherry]

well, i do genuinely believe the fiberglass is worth it

Unlike Rockets or Shaped charges, which a sufficiently wretched mind can come upon on, fibreglass is too novel a concept and I'm pretty certain its expensive.

Hell if fibreglass is good why won't jump onto thermoplastics?

[LordSlowpoke]

thermoplastics would get us a partial

partials are worthless, see: flamethrower tech

[evilcherry]

thermoplastics would get us a partial

partials are worthless, see: flamethrower tech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiberglass#History

Do you know that Fiberglass comes two years later in history than the first mass production of thermoplastics? We can also settle on Thermosets (i.e. Bakelite)

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutadiene#History
Synthetic rubber was developed in 1926.

[LordSlowpoke]

but can you build a plane out of thermoplastics

what is their use, why are they worth a design phase

[coleslaw35]

Plus, wouldn't they be, like, extremely fragile?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

plastics will cost additional oil

[coleslaw35]

plastics will cost additional oil

That too, and considering we haven't got much of that...

[LordSlowpoke]

meanwhile fiberglass is literally glass and shouldn't cost much

[FallacyofUrist]

So why are planes so important? Can't we just send stealthy infantry troops to surround and confuse our foes, difficult to spot from the air?

[coleslaw35]

So why are planes so important? Can't we just send stealthy infantry troops to surround and confuse our foes, difficult to spot from the air?

Cus' Arstotzka has a huge air superiority advantage and that's really fucking us over.

[Taricus]

We don't control the troops, just what equipment they get.

[FallacyofUrist]

Then let us make camouflage.

[Taricus]

That's not really going to help much compared to what we need right now :|

[evilcherry]

Then let us make camouflage.

Do you think that there can be camo effective enough to hide a tank from the air?