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Prague  -  US plans to base a missile defence radar in the Czech Republic are critical to showing that eastern Europe can stand up to Russia, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Monday.

Washington, May 5 : A new study has claimed that much of the success of Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a German flying ace of World War I, better known as the Red Baron, was due to plain old luck.

Richthofen racked up 80 official air combat victories—the biggest winning streak on either side—before being shot down on April 21, 1918, over northern France.

But now, a study published in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, has claimed that much of Richthofen’s success could be chalked up to plain old luck.