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Early Access: Why Luftwaffe Strategic Bombers Never Happened
🕑 Added 2025-09-23 10:20:43 +0000 UTCWhy did Germany and the Luftwaffe not have long-range strategic bombers? As a follow on from the previous video on Japanese strategic bombers, in this episode I chat about doctrine, industrial capacity, resources, manpower and more - it turns out, the Germans made a conscious and calculated gamble.
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Mason K
So, what with the He 177 glide/dive bombing requirement? If it is just a secondary requirement, why would it make the RLM insist that He 177 needs to have a two-engine arrangement until August 1942, given that Heinkel already asked for a four-engine trial on 17 November 1938 and the dive brakes had already been omitted from the He 177 after the initial A-0 pre-production batch.
Robert Henry Illston
I think the Allies use of heavy bombers mostly shows their industrial compacity and the resources they are able to throw around. Basically, the Allies won not because they HAD heavy bombers but because they could build them in numbers in addition to anything else they needed.
Robert Henry Illston
So was FW-200 in Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine service while on its Atlantic patrols?
