I wouldn't be so quick to assume. Keep in mind that biplanes helped a lot in sinking the Bismarck in WWII.
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100 percent true. I was thinking about WW1 biplanes. Some soldiers could shoot down these planes with their rifles.
The Swordfish was still an hilariously obsolete and vulnerable aircraft, even at the start of the war. Its successes where more down to the sheer amount of work they had on, and the incredible skill and balls of the pilots. A Swordfish meeting anything other than an unprotected ship was deadmeat, as evidenced when a load were sent after
Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau to try and repeat the
Bismarck exploits, they bumped into a group of Me109s first and were quickly deleted.
With a top speed of 140mph, it was only 30mph faster than a Sopwith Camel, (considered obsolete in 1918) and was only immune to being brought down by random soldiers with rifles cos it rarely seen any in the middle of the ocean. One cited reason for its success against
Bismarck was the fire control onboard couldn't account for just how slow they were.
As a comparison, by end of 1941 (5 years after its introduction) it was sharing airspace with Mosquitos with 6x the engine power, more than 3x the top speed, double the payload and 4x the firepower. This meant that Mosquitos jumped by Fw-190s (a superior aircraft to Me109s and a match for high mark Spitfires) on the way to sink some ships wouldn't get deleted.
Instead the ships got sank and the Focke-Wulfs (themselves members of squadrons specifically set up to counter Mosquitos) were given a remainder of why you don't fuck with an aircraft made of wood.