How do you want to have initiative against the Kammhuber Line and do such raids unintercepted?
The Kammhuber Line with it's search radar is fact since 1940! And to my knowledge radar is functioning at day and night
I know, as it was in 1944, when the Americans began their heavy daylight raids over Germany. To counter those raids, just over the Reich itself, the LW needed about 1600 fighters, and still failed in a fairly short space of time. The 8AF was still fielding less bombers per raid and flying a leser number of sorties than the RAF even 1.5 years later after these first big raids initiated by BC.
The only effect would be a deeper defending system of the JG's against the P51 and the Nightfighters of the LW, from 1941/42, would be the bomber interceptor of the day with the FW 190A and the BF 109F as P51 interceptor.
Which s exactly what the germans did in 1944 and failed. The Night fighters were often called upon to fly both day and night to try and stem the emergency. Placed a terrible strain on the Night Fighter crews and was hugely wasteful of them as a resource, and still made no difference to the outcome.
The main reason IMO why the RAF did not concentrate on a daylight bomber force was because it lacked any real long range fighter escort. Give the British a long range escort and there is no reason why they cannot switch to a daylight precision bombing offensive. Given that the RAF represented well over 90% of the bombing effort in 1942, why would it be possible for the LW to mount a better defence with the same detection system and a far lesser number of fighters. That is is not logical.
Also all short comings of the Kammhuber Line at night wouldn't exist at day, so the german search radar could work at it's full potential.
To be honest I was unaware the Kammhuber line had too many shortcomings at night. Im assuming that as a system it would operate as well as it did in 1944. Which gave the LW warning day or night (not considering Window) but still necessitated the committment of more than 1500 day fighters to try and counter the efforts of some hundreds of Mustangs escprting a force with an average strike siz of about 500 or so bombers. If the british adopte a similar approach, why is it impossible or unlikely that the germans would need to react in a similar fashion...ie deploy a massive force against the British in 1942 operating the same as the Americans did in 1944
Or do you want to tell us the RAF had the possibility at 1941/42 to do 500 or 1000 bomber raids at day and night?
Not in 1941 over germany. Thats was shown to be a failure, and by the end of 1941 BC was close to defeat. Not because of the efforts of the LW....losses were heavy but tolerable, but because they couldnt hit the side of a barn door at night. if they had had the ability to operate by day with a proper LR escort, they would not have been thwarted in that way.
But 1942 does raise an intersting question about the level of operations that could be sustained by the RAF. The typical sorties rate per month by the RAF in 1942 was about 2-3000 sorties per month according to Varley. The peak month was June with just over 5000 sorties per month. According to that same source("Aspects of the Comined US and Allied strategic Air Offensive") the British were dropping about 2-3000 tons of bombs each month (the range from March through to december was 2500-7000 tons per month)
By comparison, the 8AF did not reach those figures until after October 1943, but thereafter the US effort ramped up very quickly . In terms of sortie rates and bomb tonnages dropped, the US effort in february 1944 was about twice that in tonnage dropped, and about three times that in terms of sorties flown of the averages achieved by the RAF in 1942 (after March). by extrapolation that means to provide the same level of defence if the RAF was operating on an escorted basis in daylight, the LW would need around 5-600 SE fighters over Germany to achieve the same level of defence. since the german effort in 1944 was defeated it therefore follws that they need to mount a much bigger effort in 1942 in order to avoid defeat at that earlier time. Conservativeloy I think they would need to commit a minimum of 1000 a/c just over the Reich itself against the RAF operating with an effective lr daytime escort and with the capability tooperate by day or night
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Merlin 45 powered P51 would not have the performance of a Spitfire MkV because it would be 2000kg heavier (full loaded) then a Spit MK V.
Not according to some of the posters. They seem to think it would be a fast or nearly as fast and effective as just about all the fighters in 1942.
So I don't see how the P51 (with Merlin 45) will be an efffective escort fighter.
Both the FW 190A and the Bf 109F were at 390 to 397 mph combat high speed at 1941/42, so I don't see any significant advantage of the P51 at that timeline, but it would be much slower in climb performance against both german counterparts. And also as reallife has shown against the Spitfire MK V turning performance isn't that important compare to speed, climb and role rate.
Sorry but this argumentation had nothing to do with the military, performance and most important the technology facts from 1941/42.
It wouldn't be that easy with an "underperforming" P51 (Merlin45), compare to the Bf 109F and FW 190A, to destroy the LW.
To me, it is more the opposite, because the LW could play all it's good parts much more easily at day light and as I said I have great doubts that a P51 Merlin 45 powered was in the same performance leage as a Spitfire Mk V except perhaps speed.
I cant really respond to that (except to say that I think you are playing up the strengths of the LW and not looking at the overall issue) , but note that others dont agree with you. You will have to take it up with them, I guess.