Fw200 Cost Effectiveness

[Shortround6]

Oddly enough, there is some similarity between the German plan to build long range maritime bombers to support/compliment sub activities and the Soviet Plan to do the same thing in the 60s-80s.

I guess it is cheaper and faster to build a long range airforce than a naval presence. Probably less expensive as well.

They compliment each other. The aircraft can search a much larger area of the ocean and guide or warn the naval "presence" before the navy stumbles into the opposition.

 

[Nikademus]

Part of the problem was the low numbers and low serviceability. One or even two flights a day from Bordeaux out around Ireland and up to Norway (and back the next day, weather and mechanicals permitting) was not enough to spot convoys with any degree of regularity and even if a convoy was spotted and the location given out by radio it would be hours if not the next day before the u-boats could reach it. By that time the Condor was long gone and with no more course and position reports the U-boats stood little chance of making use of the information they did get.

Yes, that was part of the problem. Another part of the problem was poor training in accurately reporting the spotted convoys and doing so in a timely manner, at least according to Blair's exhaustively anal retentive study of the Uboat campaign. That was the point raised...simply building more Condors was not the be all solution anymore than "build more Uboats"

 

[Erich]

do a little search on FAGr 5's Ju 290's for sea-recon duties this was suppose to be the replacement for the outdated Kondor but like with most LW projects and units far outreached and not enough to go around over the Atlantic; simply the monies should of been generated into this craft and a major cut off of the Fw 200 continuation(s).