Best Bomber of WW2 (continued)

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LOL - it's never gonna happen! Unless, that is, we suffer a serious dark ages, enough time goes by for the spent oil under the ground to be reformed, and then somehow humans again rise to the technology of WWII.

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Lunatic
 
Umm... the age of sub-sonic prop driven combat aircraft is over!

:shock:

Lunatic
 
The real problem with this thread is that There were many bombers that were very good at what they did. At face value The Best Bomber can only be the B-29 but there were many truly excellent bombers that did everything asked that contributed to the war.
 
Lanc or B-17, why not say the B-24 :)

aS for the A-26 beig the fast atack bomber or B-25 and B-26, of the three the B-25 was the oldest, and the B-16 and A-26 had design problums. I have no dout that the B-24 could have been your fast tour engine bomber if the P-38 program for escorts were used from the start, but operation Torch, needed them more. And the Air Core had a bad idea they were not needed. Yes the USA could put out more aircraft then any other but they two were gettig hit with horific loses in crews. 100,000+ bomber crewman were being held by wars end. ;)

I was watching Tora. Tora, Tora and had to be sad for the B-17s flying into that mess with now guns and no gas. They got mostly riped appart as they were desperate to land. :(
 
The TU2 was a very good attack bomber too.

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Lunatic
 
Yeah, I agree wmaxt....I still gripe about the huge losses initially incurred with the B-29's introduction, but it was it's service that neutralised Japan, and for that we're all grateful.....it does puzzle me why the US didn't get it's first jet-bomber into WWII, it was capable of doing it, and it was the answer in many ways to RG's and my discussion of a 'Fast Bomber'....it's only bomber-competition was the Ar-234, the Bf-262 was a far better interceptor than a bomber....What do you reckon ?........

And Willow, my favourite is the B-24, if it was a choice between the B-17 or B-24...much better range...and it did great Maritime work, indispensable in fact.........


Gemhorse
 
Jets were still too new when the B-29 project was started. A big part of the motivation behind the B-29 was to have something capable of delivering the A-Bomb to any target necessary. This required a range in excess of 3000 miles - something no jet design could hope to achieve within the WWII timeframe.

Actually, the B-29 was very fast - 364 mph @ 25,000 feet. Had it been available in 1943, the German's would have had a very very hard time intercepting it.

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Lunatic
 
Agreed, the figures I have for the first US Jet bomber only give a range of 1,100 miles, a bombload of 8,000 lb, max speed of 503 mph and ceiling of 38,200 ft.....
The B-29 was really only destined for Japan, but that visit of one to the UK while east-bound certainly worked, as far as what German Intelligence thought...they were worried.......

Gemhorse
 
The best Bomber hast to go to the B-29, no doubt. There are a few bombers, which were faster, some could go more precisely and so on but I really don´t see why we should give the title to a faster Ar 232 C (560 mp/h) or the more precisely Lanc (ground radar, wow!). The B-29 remained "state of the art" even years after ww2.
 
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