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i doubt it would be successful..............
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cheddar cheese
Major General
Why?
the lancaster kicks ass
Major General
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easy meat for fighters and flack..................
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cheddar cheese
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Parasites would deal with the fighters. And you never know, it could be pretty normal in speed and ceiling.
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cheddar cheese
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Yup. But I dont think it'd be any worse than most bombers, all things considered.
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looks like it carries 6 fighters, a squadron could take out the fighters and proberly the bomber, parasite fighters have useless range, they'd have to dock with the bomber again or they're lost.............
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cheddar cheese
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But if it had escort as well...
evangilder
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But alot of Kamikaze pilots didn't make it to their intended targets, either hit by the gunners or other circumstances. The ones that hit did inflict some serious damage and death, but the kamikaze record is not as good as it would seem.
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if it had escort they wouldn't have the parasite fighters..............
Well they did not have many succeses but they were the one to use them! But Germans could use V1 or V2 missiles instead and that might do a lot of damage. So the escort would be usefull in that case.
(Ok they can still intercept the missiles but they would have to deal with the fighter and bombers as well)
(Ok they can still intercept the missiles but they would have to deal with the fighter and bombers as well)
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cheddar cheese
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the lancaster kicks ass said:
Why not, who knows what the Germans would have done?
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Major General
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ok, it's unlikely that they'd have the parasite fighters AND escort fighters..................
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cheddar cheese
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I dont really think so. And anyway, I doubt the plane would fly there by itself, there could be a whole group of them. if there was 6 or 7 that would be 42 parasites... a group of 78 or 8 Stangs would have a pretty tough job...
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it's unlikely they'd launch all the parasite fighters in one go, an we'll assume the design wouldn't fly opperationally 'til a little before 1950 shall we?? by this time the meteor would be at its' best and we could have even had the EE Lightening in service by then, no ammount of parasite fighters can save any ammount of bombers from EE Lightenings............
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cheddar cheese
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We werent the only ones developing planes you know. The 262 would have got better. The Ta-152 would have got better. The Bf-109 would have got better. Hell even the Me-263 could have been a good plane.
Anyway it was designed to bomb America, not Britain, so the Meteor and the Lightning would be useless against it. Anyway it would have taken nearly 5 years for it to become operational, 2 years max.
Anyway it was designed to bomb America, not Britain, so the Meteor and the Lightning would be useless against it. Anyway it would have taken nearly 5 years for it to become operational, 2 years max.
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they'd be useless flying over britian, none of those aircraft had a hope in hell of escorting the bombers over the atlantic...............
if the worst came to the worst we were going to continue our war from Canada, i'm sure the Americans wouldn't say no to a little help from us, especially if we had EE Lightenings.................
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cheddar cheese
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But you said they had crap range...
And it would need escorting across the atlantic, whats the possibility enemy fighters are gonna be patrolling out there...
And why would they be useless over Britain, theyd mince our planes...
And then theres the possibility of the Ho-229.
And it would need escorting across the atlantic, whats the possibility enemy fighters are gonna be patrolling out there...
And why would they be useless over Britain, theyd mince our planes...
And then theres the possibility of the Ho-229.
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i get the feeling you haven't quite grasped that the bombers in question were designed to be flown from a captured britian or france to bomb america??
the escort fighters would have to escort it across the atlantic for when the bombers get to america.....................
the very fact that they're over britian makes them useless, as we'd be defending Canada/America, The 262, Ta-152, Bf-109 and the Me-263 (the four planes to which one of your posts refers) wouldn't have a chance of escorting a plane from Europe over the atlantic to America/Canada..............
they did have (we're fering to the EE Lightening and Meteor for those of you who are slightly lost) but they'd be operating in the intorceptor role, range doesn't matter as much in that role..................
the escort fighters would have to escort it across the atlantic for when the bombers get to america.....................
the very fact that they're over britian makes them useless, as we'd be defending Canada/America, The 262, Ta-152, Bf-109 and the Me-263 (the four planes to which one of your posts refers) wouldn't have a chance of escorting a plane from Europe over the atlantic to America/Canada..............
they did have (we're fering to the EE Lightening and Meteor for those of you who are slightly lost) but they'd be operating in the intorceptor role, range doesn't matter as much in that role..................
