Interesting thing about Stuka - maybe off topic - if one is an excellent pilot, he could fly even obsolete aircraft with big success.
I think there was one German pilot named Rudel, who flew stuka, when this aircraft was allready very obsolete. He was on eastern front and he fought successfully with superior airplanes on Russian side.
Similar to Japanese ace Sakai, who flew successfully his Zero (OK - different modells) until the end of the war, when Zero was obsolete comparing to Hellcats or Corsairs and Mustangs.