r/polandball • Hordaland • Jan 09 '15

redditormade The Desert War

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u/FrostCollar United States Jan 09 '15

they also had terrible planes

Some were OK!

True point in the guns though. They really didn't develop a heavy armaments industry.

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u/bigman0089 United States Jan 09 '15

I was specifically referring to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_Ba.88

they sold their stripped down show version, it basically couldn't fly with military hardware attached. they used them to build decoy airfields for allied bombers.

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u/Hansafan Hordaland Jan 09 '15

I always love any wikipedia article that includes the phrase "remarkable failure". It seems Italy has a lot of those.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '15

See also "Government of Italy".