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Old 24th Jan 2012, 18:26
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Whopity - as usual a V Force thread is turning into a Vulcan thread
() so perhaps I'd better answer your question fully and include percentages for Valiant and Victor losses. As far as I can tell the figures are 9.35% and 13.75% respectively. The Valiant of course only had a service life of around ten years.

Difficult to compare with the F104 - a case of apples and pears really. Do you include combat losses in Vietnam? Do you concentrate on the F104G operated by the Germans - an aircraft not really suited to the role of low level flying in Northern European weather conditions? Whichever way you look at it, though, I'm pretty sure the Starfighter had a much higher percentage of losses than any of the V 's.
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