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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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Not making it up, either. Some of their battleships and cruisers, some of the habitation areas, the decks were not even 6 feet floor to ceiling. Hence they could fit more living room into a given amount of hull volume and leave more space left over for offensive systems or subdivision. The number of compartments in some of their ships bordered on absurd.
In addition to small cockpits, a common complaint with most of their captured aircraft were weak brakes. That's partly a reflection of their less-industrialized nation--they favored grass fields longer than the U.S. did. Reading (translated) books and memoirs written by their aircraft designers was good reading, I'd recommend it in the book thread if I could remember the names. Their biggest limitation was their engine technology was a few years behind the U.S.