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Safety isn’t as high a priority for military aircraft, except in that losing an aircraft is expensive. Military pilots know that they are expected to die for th

• tialaramex 8y ago
  Suicide is not part of conventional military doctrine. Pilots are tremendously expensive and take time to train, so they are not expendable. One of the things going badly wrong for Hitler by the time of the Normandy invasion was he was running out of trained pilots. Factories can build ten more planes when you lose ten per night, but your pilot training can't replace ten men overnight regardless of whether those men are dead or in POW camps. The RAF was losing planes too of course, but mostly in friendly territory, so it kept getting the pilots back. Put them in a new plane and you've kept all that valuable real world experience.