What If...?

[the lancaster kicks ass]

did the GZ have any decent RADAR??

 

[Nonskimmer]

Unfortunately for them, the GZ didn't have much of a decent anything. The Germans were brand new to the carrier biz and all sorts of mistakes were made.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

annother reasion she would have met a very quick end......

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Unfortunately for them, the GZ didn't have much of a decent anything. The Germans were brand new to the carrier biz and all sorts of mistakes were made.

Agreed

 

[MP-Willow]

They never really tried though, and the plans were not thought through that much. I have read a little more and the German Navy was planning for war in 1940 or so. But the GZ would have had a lot of RN ships and planes to look after it, I wounder if that alone would have affected the war

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well the mere presence of a bug capital ship like that has a huge impact, look at the tirpitz, the tirpitz was our biggest naval threat before she was destroyed, she had so many royal naval resources tied down that her destruction would change the entire naval situation on a global scale, but why?? all she did was sit in harbour, well it was because there was the possibility that she could make it into the atlantic, well, we would have given the GZ the same attention we did the tirptiz, because she could have done damage, however it would be unlikely she would do damage because of allt eh "attention" we'd be giving her........

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

well the mere presence of a bug capital ship like that has a huge impact, look at the tirpitz, the tirpitz was our biggest naval threat before she was destroyed, she had so many royal naval resources tied down that her destruction would change the entire naval situation on a global scale, but why?? all she did was sit in harbour, well it was because there was the possibility that she could make it into the atlantic, well, we would have given the GZ the same attention we did the tirptiz, because she could have done damage, however it would be unlikely she would do damage because of allt eh "attention" we'd be giving her........

Well said I agree.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

thing is she was too early to be "tall boyed"

 

[MP-Willow]

True Lanc, but that was what I was thinking that the RN would have somuch tied up on the GZ that the war would be changed or the thinking of war plans.

I think that a good solution would have come up maybe even the Tally Boy would bee created for the Graf Zeplin

 

[cheddar cheese]

Why use Lancasters when you can use Swordfish?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

because swordfish can't carry a tall boy

but, as much as it pains me to say it, you're right, if we couldn't attack with lancasters, the raid proberly would have been done by swordfish/beauforts and beaufighter escort, depending on location.......

 

[cheddar cheese]

Or course they can carry a Tall Boy, just put it on a line between the two

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

oh god

 

[cheddar cheese]

Unless its an African Swordfish, in which case it can manage on its own.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Alright now that I did not get.

 

[plan_D]

Monty Python, he's talking about the Swallow sketch in Monty Python's "Search of the Holy Grail"

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Ahhhh

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but they're talking about carrying coconuts, not tallboys, obviously........

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yeah I have to watch it again because I am lost.

 

[MP-Willow]

But it is the same, the Tally Bot replaces the coconut and the Swordfish the swallows.

I really love that Film and the Swallows