soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Apr 11, 12:26 am, Tiger wrote:
> Considering the Clear advantage in quality in the Luftwaffe's aircraft;
> Why stick with the home grown production? Why not licence build Fw-190's
> & Me 109's instead of Fiat's And Macchi's. While The Germans exchanged
> technology with Japan, How come Italy seems to come up short? Would The
> Med Campaign have gone differntly if Italian Pilots have had first rate
> equipment from their Axis partner?

Factory equipment and existing infrastructure. Also Mussolini was
proud of Italian technology. Finally, the war changed course very
quickly for Italy.