Not if your lone super fighter breaks down. You have less planes then your missions are limited. Air-to-air engagements are the least important things in a war. The seat of purpose is always on the ground.
The idea of attacking and then running away and then coming back later to finish the job is idiotic. The second you take off, the course of battle could have changed. They might need you there to control the air while something decisive is being played out on the ground.
Super weapons without numbers usually don’t win wars. The Tiger Tank, the Me262 and the Yamamoto Battleship couldn’t hold back the allied tide.
The topic was hordes of LWF’s or few heavies.
Of course is it important to generate enough sorties, so that you don’t get overwhelmed, therefore enough airframes.
Without a2a engagements no air superiority, without that no chance of victory in a conventional war.
If we go into this, we would need to discuss the importance of the different mission-types (interception, interdiction, strike…)
The Tiger Tanks were defeated by aircraft and lack of fuel/supply,
the Me 262 was pressed into service as the war was always lost and the relations where not 1:3 as we discuss in this case, the Yamato and Musashi where not used properly because of lack of oil and where defeated by airattacks….
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