[DRG]

If a speed is 6 or 7 it REALLY does not matter much in the game ( really, really ) so if I find a group of aircraft and they are all 7 and the theoretical ground attack speed is 6 I'm just going to leave them at 7 . What alarmed me when I ran the oobs through our database checker was the number of 8 and 9's ( and 10's ) I found ( and BTW.......jets are 9.......... that value is hardcoded and cannot be overwritten in sound field for aircraft ( aircraft are different that ground vehicles ).

Given there are almost 900 aircraft in the game that are just UC44 there is a good chance when I find a type that is within 1 of what I think they should be and they are all the same then that's what they are going to stay

If you REALLY want to test your "lowering speed would mean, that aircraft will be more vulnerable." you have all the tools in front of you to do that.....MOBHack to build test aircraft with speeds from 1 to 10 then a scenario editor to set up a flak alley to run them through the gauntlet and see if more 5's are shot down than 6's. My guess is you will have to run a lot of aircraft through to see any pattern