>>Me ole mum
There for the grace of!
>> give insight into why the Luftwaffe failed to develop strategic bombers
Very briefly and simplified...
German industrial capacity was maxed out (perhaps they shouldn't have played with the complex V2).
You've got to build the airframe, so the saving isn't there, it's in the number of engines.
Plus fuel usage (4 engines use more than 2) which was an increasing problem as time progressed and of course the requirement for fighter cover which was seriously depleted by the RAF and USAFF.
Goering said re the Mosquito (not a strategic bomber):
"It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I’m going to buy a British radio set – then at least I’ll own something that has always worked.”
Last edited by: zippy on Tue 16 Aug 22 at 20:31
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