It’s no accident that the concept of a Potemkin Village is Russian too. I remember the MiG 25 Foxbat at the best aircraft of its time until we got our hands on it. Rust on the body, engines that burned out at full throttle, junk.
That Japs had one huge battleship during WWII that the U.S. sunk before it could do any damage. I could be wrong when it was sunk but I think it happened about the same time as the battle of Midway. Can’t remember the name of it but I think Yamamoto was on board at the time it went down.
OK WWII historians, lets hear it.