Nonsense. Roosevelt would have asked for the bombers and Churchill would have agreed.
30 bombers represented far less than .5% of Lancaster production.
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I also can't see Harris or Portal (Chief of Air Staff) agreeing to it, to be honest, not in 1943. Since neither Arnold nor Tibbetts knew anything about the weapon, the RAF heads would have said nope, we got a campaign to run. 1943 was a crucial year for Bomber Command in terms of equipment and role in the forthcoming war - it finally had the aircraft it needed in the numbers required to successfully launch a conclusive campaign - Lancaster IIIs and Halifax IIIs, after the unsatisfactory performance of the Stirlings and Merlin engined Halifaxes he'd been lumbered with in the previous year. Harris jealously guarded his Lancasters and with the Americans unable to give a satisfactory response to his questions, he wouldn't have let them go.
Nonsense. Roosevelt would have asked for the bombers and Churchill would have agreed.
Nonsense. You don't know that. There is a lot that Churchill could do, but if Harris said no, and he had the support of Portal, Churchill would have gone along with it. He listened to those who knew what they were doing...
What part of this do you not understand? The maximum take off weight at 72,000 would not have given the aircraft the range needed to reach 1,700 miles! You toy with one aspect of the equation it stuffs up something else! At the MTOW of 68,000 lbs you can carry the fuel and warload at range of 1,700 miles at a speed of 175 mph at a height of 15,000 ft. Increase or decrease any of these parameters and you lose out somewhere else, too slow, too short range, too low height!
Lancaster VI equals Fw 187 wishful thinking man! In 1943 it didn't exist!
How do you know? Not even Roosevelt knew the nature of the weapon! He wasn't included in the secret list! Not even Arnold nor Tibbetts knew! There's no way the British are gonna be let in on it!
Churchill and King were "in the know".
My figures are based on those recorded by the A&AEE on the use of the Grand Slam by a B.I Special, and a Upkeep mine having roughly the same weight as a Little Boy. Figures for Tall Boy carrying Lancasters have not survived the war. Silverplate Lancaster? There's that mythical dragon again...
The Tall Boy mission against the Tirpitz was flown from Russia in Norway, not the mid Pacific.
Give up mate.
The Tallboy mission that sank Tirpitz was flown from and to Scotland.
wow...so Churchill knew aboit the Atomic bomb and Roosevelt didn't?
Impressive.
If we're going down that rabbit hole, then the B-19 would have been the obvious choice for the Silverplate project...
Got any evidence to back that up? A document, anything other than your imagination and wishful thinking?
Roosevelt did know. Why would you possibly believe otherwise:
"Failed design" really?The B-19 was a failed design.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove that he knew about the atomic bomb. Not at all. All it does is prove that he knew the USA needed uranium for a weapon, the nature of which and what it was capable of HE DID NOT KNOW. It wasn't common knowledge like today. Memory telescoping, I think that's called.
"Failed design" really?
lmao...right - it was slow to be developed but it's performance proved it's concept.
It was one of the largest aircraft of the war, it had the undisputed longest range and it could (and did) carry over 37,000 pounds.
Ohhhh..I forgot, it wasn't a Lancaster, my bad.