Romantic Technofreak
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- Jul 12, 2008
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Chain Home was improved throughout the war. Ground Controlled Intercept operated behind CH and was introduced starting 1st Jan 1941. Intruder losses rose from 0.5% in Dec 1940 to 7% in May 1941.I doubt they were using exactly the same radars either. Like better height finding and fewer blind spots behind the main towers.
As soon as a scenario starts using ""nearly ready" types like He 100 and Fw 187" it has already gone into fantasy land.
Using a nearly ready plane that has been out of production and development for about 3 years before the scenario starts (and had been rejected for good reasons) demands too great a suspension of disbelief.
Hitler is toppled to continue a war just with UK and no conflict in the east sounds like a special "Germany wins" scenario.
I doubt they were using exactly the same radars either. Like better height finding and fewer blind spots behind the main towers.
That was part of the goal with the proximity fuse project.
I believe the goal to start with was to get 50% of the fuses to go off.
This isn't as bad as it sounds, regular time fuses could have a dud rate of between 10 to 20 % depending on country and time of the war.
HiThe British had become very proficient at defending their borders from German airpower in 1940 and 1941. That system had only been refined and improved in 1942 and 1943.
I don't think the Luftwaffe, even with a qualitative improvement in their fighter and bomber fleets, are going to have the numbers or the stamina necessary to overcome the RAF and the USAAF combined.
Fighter Command had addressed their biggest shortcoming - numbers of trained pilots - by the end of 1942. So much so that fighter pilots were being transferred across to Bomber Command, much to their dismay.
Does anyone have Fighter Command strength figures for 1943? My copies of Foreman's Fighter Command War Diaries - which have those figures - are currently about 350 km away from me.
The Luftwaffe strength figures in Vajda & Dancey are from the Luftwaffe Strength and Serviceability tables, done by the RAF post war using captured documents.Other comparative figures from 'German Aircraft Industry and Production 1933-1945' by Vajda & Dancey:
They'd better come up with quality and numbers both, because they're about to get hit with a s^^t-ton of airplanes. Quoth Stalin, "Quantity has a quality all its own."
As for stopping the use of British soil for basing these numerous airplanes, hogwash. The Germans couldn't defeat the RAF in 1940 and in large part that wasn't due to the RAF having better planes, but due to the RAF having better command-and-control. Those radar stations haven't gone anywhere, and the Allies are now using them to vector better fighters than Hurris and Spit Is.
Too bad Admiral King was such an Anglophobe. The RN was much better at fighter direction as well.