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Incidentally, that's another myth that's been dispelled by later research; the removal of the wingtips very much a last-minute operation, and wasn't planned. Wasp couldn't get far enough up-river to where the Spitfires were waiting, so they had to go to her. Each one was put onto a Queen Mary trailer, but the tips had to be removed to negotiate the narrow Glasgow streets.But does that mean that they would have used some US paints or did some British paint sneak its way on board? I can imagine a few cans shoved in the cockpits along with the wing tips
But does that mean that they would have used some US paints or did some British paint sneak its way on board? I can imagine a few cans shoved in the cockpits along with the wing tips
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Steve
Hmmm, we're getting into the world of the niceties of the English language. It was rather a case of reacting in such a way that the Germans felt it was chance, rather than advance knowledge, which caused things (from their perspective) to go wrong. Our ships just happened, by pure luck, to find the U-boat "Milk cows."Wasn't it the case that the Allies, the British in particular, were reluctant to act on intelligence unless it was thought that the Germans would believe thatthe information came through a method other than their signals being read?
Aozora beat me to it. You guys thinking USN SHIP paint and not USN Aircraft paint. The ship should have some on board. Thin that and spray it.
The Luftwaffe ditched nightfighter intruder operations in 1941 because Hitler and Göring didn't believe they were making much of an impact. They were wrong; had the Luftwaffe restarted its intruder operations in 1943 it would have caused major problems for the RAF. A few Luftwaffe nightfighters infiltrating the returning bombers over bomber bases would have been very difficult to counter, because the RAF's nightfighters would have been confronted with large numbers of radar returns. Ditto the ground defences.
Dive bombing lost a lot of it's attraction as AA defences got better. The dive bombing attack profile gives the AA gunners more aiming and firing time than low level attacks and a more predictable flight path.On the Stuka, 1st to complement it, than to replace it - how about the Fw-190 with dive brakes? Much like the P-51 became A-36.
Then - how much the Hs-129 is an asset? What would be an expedient way to have a capable tank buster, provided that is a really good use of German resources?
Similar to the RAF thread: what steps need to be undertaken by the LW in order to best it's opponents in the up coming years? The time frame is the same, starts in Autumn of '40, ends before '44 starts.
Looking at the specs of the Hs-129, it was been able to carry 6x50= 300 kg of bombs, vs. the Ju-87 carrying vastly more, up to 1800 kg in -D 'line', and up to 1000 kg in the -B line. Of course, Stukas were also able to carry multiple bombs; not all the targets require 1 ton bombs. The Hs-129 does not offer much of a save - we need anywhere from 3 to six of them to deliver the punch the Stuka was capable for, that is 3 to 6 times as number of pilots*, and 6 to 12 times the number of powerplants.
Ju-87Ds were also available as 'assault aircraft', that is without dive brakes, and with cannons, and the armor was bolstered when the -D was introduced.
*Stukas have/need rear gunners, though; Hs-129 also need a gunner, but can't have it
In Czechoslovakia, there is the 'Avia' company, design production of fighters (B.35, B.135 - almost as good as SPitfire I and Bf-109E), production of B.71 (license of the SB-2, a Soviet design); country also has license for the HS 12Y and Mercury engines. In Poland, there are substantial production lines, also Mercury produced under license.
In the Netherlands, Belgium and France, there is another lot of production lines. In Yugoslavia, there were Ikarus and Rogozarski factories, that produced either own designs or licensed stuff.
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As this is in reference to intruder operations, the ability of intruders to penetrate a non-intergrated air defense system (did Russian bombers have IFF?) That lacked radar equipped night fighters patrolling near the bomber bases doesn't mean the same tactic would work against England.
An intruder campaign would only work IF it raised Bomber Command's losses to around 10% while keeping their own losses (from all causes) a bit lower than 10% in order to keep up the campaign.