The actual damage to the German aircraft industry was fairly limited; during 1944 German fighter aircraft production peaked by dispersing production and reducing the production of other aircraft types. The lack of skilled pilots due to an attrition in the three-front war was the factor eroding the capability of the "Jagdwaffe". The Luftwaffe had to abandon its tactic of "maximum defensive effort" to daylight bombing missions in favor of hit-and-run intercepts. While the "Jagdwaffe" remained formidable, air superiority had passed irrevocably to the Allies.