Best Bomber of WW2 (continued)

[MP-Willow]

I think the strategic strike with or with out a radiological atack would have had good and bad results. One more fighters would have been held over US cities, but I do not think they would have been taken from frount line units, more like they would be training patrols or rotatted crews.

2- with more air cover the U-boats would have had a harder time sitting off the New Jersey coast and dropping shipping with almost no opposition.

3- With a straegic bomber you could if so wish level London or all the RAF bases. Think of the greater carnage then what London did suffer. Could have been like the fire bombing of Japan.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

to be honest during the BoB and the blitz even a larger bomber wouldn't have made any real difference, the germans didn't have the tactics to use them effectively, the only difference would be would be there would be fewer bombers, they may have beem harder to shood down but we'd still get 'em and more crew would be lost per bomber...........

 

[tail_gunner]

I say the Mosquito was the best bomber.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it's cirtainly up there with the best however it's not as good as the lancaster............

 

[Concorde247]

Dont forget that the UK also used the B29 - but after WW2.

We called it the washington i believe.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes we did, about 80 of them, however this was only until the lickoln had reached full service............

 

[Concorde247]

Yes, they werent in service for long.

 

[MP-Willow]

Lanc, if the German's developed the 4 engine heavies then they I think would have had some development of doctorine. I know that is my own thought and a strech, but that is my feeling.

They might have been used more in the East, to reach out over the Urals, or the American sites over the pole.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yes, the removal of fighter squadrons from the Western Front might have given the Luftwaffe a slight advantage. If it had a dirty bomb, the whole of New York would have become uninhabitable aswell.
But this is all one BIG "IF"

The likely size of any German Dirty bomb would not have caused too much damage. It would have been one hell of a shock though.

to be honest during the BoB and the blitz even a larger bomber wouldn't have made any real difference, the germans didn't have the tactics to use them effectively, the only difference would be would be there would be fewer bombers, they may have beem harder to shood down but we'd still get 'em and more crew would be lost per bomber...........

I disagree, if they had designed more heavy bombers before the war they certainly would have come up with better tactics. Where not talking about the Russians here.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well that's just my thoughts......

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Whew thats a relief, I really thought your thoughts were just some master plan to take the world.

 

[MP-Willow]

I think that a program for havies would have to be in place pre-war because the Germans had limitted recources.

Sustaining this bomber force would be hard in the war I think.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes a large bombing campain isn't easy to keep going...........

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

And that is why the Germans never got one going because they failed to see the importance of it before the war.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

possibly one of their biggest mistakes.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Possibly, although when they took over half of Europe with no real problems without the bombers, perhaps they thought Britian would be pretty much the same. How wrong they were

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes but most of europe cannot be counted as serious opposition realisticlly, as soon as they came up against serious opposition they needed a bigger bomber..........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yep. I must say though that they nearly cracked us, a retarded change in tactics for them was a step backwards though :Wink:

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

however close they came to cracking us it is extremely unlikely they ever would have.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yeah. Who knows what the Britis would have done