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I agree. However it's what Britain needed for CAS.
Where did you get a crazy idea like that? Here's a picture of a P-47 attempting (unsuccessfully) to dive bomb Fort Driant during the fall of 1944.
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By late 1943 everyone was trying to dive bomb to improve weapon accuracy. Naturally purpose built dive bombers such as Ju-87D had a big advantage in bomb size, accuracy and protection against ground fire.
Where did you get a crazy idea like that? Here's a picture of a P-47 attempting (unsuccessfully) to dive bomb Fort Driant during the fall of 1944.
By late 1943 everyone was trying to dive bomb to improve weapon accuracy. Naturally purpose built dive bombers such as Ju-87D had a big advantage in bomb size, accuracy and protection against ground fire.
But they, or any other fighter undertaking a ground strike, are not, by definition, a divebomber. And neither are they nearly as accurate.
Ju87s could undertake attacks at near vertical descents, or at least , up to a maximum of about 70-80 degrees. They could control the rate of descent using their dive brakes. All of which made them very efficient in terms of accuracy. But they were vulnerable. very much so. to both flak and fighters. the very things that made them dangerous in attack, made them vulnerable in defence. And the thing the RAF needed in 1940 more than anything was survivability.
Typhoons, Pe2s, Ju88s, were accurate, more accurate than a level bomber, but not as accurate as a divebomber. their angle of attack might be 40 or 50% maximum, and the steeper the dive the faster the descent. This made them inherently less accurate than a dedicated divebomber. But the edvantage for them was that this inherent weakness in their mission capability also made them survivable in a hostile environment.
The Allies were doomed in the Battle of France because they were behind with the times, the British Army was under the command of the French who's HQ didn't even have telephone communications for heavens sake and the French General running the whole thing was as old as the Ark! If the French had their more modern thinking Generals in charge before and during the war then they would of had things much better organised and maybe the Germans would not have dared going to war with France. If the RAF had had mosquitos during the Battle of France I don't think even they could have done much more than slow the Germans down.
Had the Belgians and French performed as well the Germans might still have won but it would have been a much longer fight.
Unfortunately, one can readily agree with Jaberwocky (post #31 here) - RAF was ill able to offensively hurt the Germans during 1939/40, either on strategic* or tactical level, hence it could not helped the British (and allied) ground forces back then.
*my conclusion, re. recent thread about feasibility of Anglo-French bombing campaign in 1939/40
You misunderstand, I don't blame just the French which is why I wrote that the Allies were doomed. Although not nearly modern enough I think the British were more modern in their ways than the French but having said that it was hardly possible not to be. The French had a lot on their side including better tanks and more of them than the Germans, the French also had a lot of very committed troops it was just their top brass that let them down. If the French (and I talk of the French because they had by far the biggest army) had of had good communications with their front lines, had of had concentrated tank formations, had of had committed the best of it's air force and had of had been clever enough to realise that they were being drawn into a trap by moving into Belgium should of done well against the Germans, the fact that they didn't wasn't the fault of the ordinary French soldiers who were killed in massive numbers but their leaders. There is a tendency to expect the next war to be fought like the last and this is where the mistake was made in London and Paris before the war.Neither French, nor British show during May/June of 1940 was stellar, of course due to not being prepared for a motorized war. Blaming just the French is misleading.