Not just the less than stellar Lw leadership, there is still that stretch of dark blue-green stuff that had to be crossed if Britain was to be knocked out.
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So lets say a 109E with drop-tanks and a two-stage supercharged DB601 going into the Battle-of-Britain, and you`re looking at a different outcome, although you have tactical considerations too, and the twit Goring and his crew of numpty yes-men could have chucked it all away with any set of aircraft at his disposal, but a 109 thus equipped was a pretty serious practical possibility and is less far fetched than the jet scenario.
Not just the less than stellar Lw leadership, there is still that stretch of dark blue-green stuff that had to be crossed if Britain was to be knocked out.
Alternately, deploy the He 112B with a DB 601 engine as it has a better range.
Any numbers to back that up?
Was that with the Do 19 or Ju 89? 4 engine heavy bomber?Somehow, Luftwaffe managed to resolve the problem number 2 and to bomb successfully the Soviet industry at night disabling several key factories and oil/oil products storages in Povolzhye area and Kursk marshalling yard in June 1943.
In reality it was with twin engine bombers.Was that with the Do 19 or Ju 89? 4 engine heavy bomber?
For most of the war, the best available American fighter was the P-40. I believe had America been more hands on and produced more modern fighters in the 1930s then things could have been better.
The US was building longer ranged planes than the 109, not long enough for bomber escort but longer ranged than european aircraft.In many ways, the USA, USSR, France and Italy maybe Japan could have produced a Spitfire/109 equivalent in the same time frames as the 109.
Aircraft like the P-40 and the D. 520 flew 2 years too late.
A dozen squadrons of Hurricanes or better yet Spitfires based in Singapore along with 6-8 squadrons of Hawker Hendon dive bombers, with appropriate infrastructure such as radar, all doable by the end of 1941, along with some decent leadership, AVM Keith Park to the rescue again?, might well have stopped the whole Singapore/NEI debacle happening.
I appreciate I somewhat over simplified things, I work better like that.An adequately sized air force would be a good start point.there was a lack of fighters, we were sending our surplus Hurricanes and P-40's to the USSR, the latter to the AVG. The Mohawk IV was available. More carriers were needed. We lost Repulse and the Prince of Wales due to lack of fighter cover. We had abandoned our 3 ocean navy in the Washington Naval Treaty. There was a lack of transports, no way of helping our army fight it's way out of encirclement. We built lots of bombers but very few transports. Lots of Blenheim's and Hampdens, very few Bombays and Harrows. Only one Fortress city, Singapore, not lots.
It needed to make all the Straits Settlements fortress cities to enable retreat after encirclement at the beaches. Transport aircraft to enable resupply. The Lysander would be okay for nighttime close air support, as for dive bombers maybe the Cleveland or Vindicator.I appreciate I somewhat over simplified things, I work better like that.My basic premise is enough fighters & dive bombers, prevent the Japanese landings in Northern Malaya & provided support to army units mopping up the stragglers that managed to land. Fighters also give air cover to PoW & Repulse so land based bombers & torpedo bombers unable to close with them. Japanese invasion has failed, Dutch East Indies provides defence in depth, Palembang oil fields cannot provide oil to Japan, Singapore provides a secure base for Allied Forces to take battle back to Japanese forces. Enough forethought could well have provided the breathing space necessary to replenish & reinforce enabling effective resistance against an enemy whose offensive capacity has been severely blunted. Something like that anyway. I've long thought that the RAF's refusal to embrace dive bombing rather than buying heaps of fairly useless Battles & Blenheims cost them hugely early on in Europe & SE Asia.
Keep in mind that by 1936, the US had the P-36, which first flew in 1935 and had comparable performance as the Hurricane and Bf109.I do declare that had America been kicking ass and taking names from 1936 onwards and stationed powerful forces in UK and France then even Hitler wouldn't have invaded the rest of Europe.
Although a very aggressive building policy in 1936 could have meant some very obsolete aircraft. Short ranged and poorly armed. But maybe they were aircraft better not built.
Keep in mind that by 1936, the US had the P-36, which first flew in 1935 and had comparable performance as the Hurricane and Bf109.
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Agreed. That's why I was thinking more in terms of making things costly enough to force another armistice like ww1 as a definition of tide turning and even then probably not. It would have however really costly for the Allies in my estamation and if the war drags on long enough maybe the public grows weary of war and a negotiated settlement is nescesary for political reasons. Again, I'm not saying this is a likely scenario but one that the fielding of large numbers of ME262S( and the others you listed) would have made a posibiity, even if unlikely that wouldn't have existed at all without it.
Was that with the Do 19 or Ju 89? 4 engine heavy bomber?
1943 is not 1936.