Amerika Bomber

That would require an early investment into the development of 4-engine bombers, and thus an entirely different conception of war by the German Reich (an air force not entirely devoted to army cooperation, and objectives less oriented towards short-term gains).
 
Could the Amerika Bomber have been started earlier, and resulted in a successful Amerika Bomber?
AH cliche number... not quite sure what but not too far down the list from Seelowe...

Could it have resulted in a successful America Bomber? Define succesful. From a technical perspective maybe... from a military perspective almost certainly not.
 
Alright, could the Ju-390, in my opinion one of the craft that could've entered service had enough range to bomb NYC. Also in my opinion you can get a successful Sealion, but with German Strategic Bombing.
Here are my opinions of a successful Amerika Bombing

1. Have a combat radius of 3850 miles to hit Cincinnati, and several near mid-west and east coast facilities.
2. Have a payload of at the minimum 8,000lbs.
3. Be able to have it defendable from all points (Nose Gun, Ball Turret 1, Ball Turret 2, Tail Turret, Top Turret (1), (Top Turret 2), Waist Gun Left (1), Waist Gun Right (1), (Waist Gun Left 2), (Waist Gun Right 2))
4. Be able to have mid-air refueling
5. Get into service by early 1943
6. Start the project in 1937, to have best results :)

And if those Germans had decided to do the following, they would have gotten a successful Sealion.

1. Don't build as many U-Boats, and focus on Destroyers, Cruisers, and the Graf Zeppelin Carrier.
2. Continue With Aircraft production, and don't slow down production.
3. Launch an attack at the RAF bases and Radar facilities.
4. DON'T USE RIVER BARGES!
5. Develop a successful landing craft.
6. Have night paratrooper landings and night glider landings. Land around 6,000 Men of Paratroopers around England, to cause terror.
 
Alright, could the Ju-390, in my opinion one of the craft that could've entered service had enough range to bomb NYC. Also in my opinion you can get a successful Sealion, but with German Strategic Bombing.
Here are my opinions of a successful Amerika Bombing

1. Have a combat radius of 3850 miles to hit Cincinnati, and several near mid-west and east coast facilities.
2. Have a payload of at the minimum 8,000lbs.
3. Be able to have it defendable from all points (Nose Gun, Ball Turret 1, Ball Turret 2, Tail Turret, Top Turret (1), (Top Turret 2), Waist Gun Left (1), Waist Gun Right (1), (Waist Gun Left 2), (Waist Gun Right 2))
4. Be able to have mid-air refueling
5. Get into service by early 1943
6. Start the project in 1937, to have best results :)

And if those Germans had decided to do the following, they would have gotten a successful Sealion.

1. Don't build as many U-Boats, and focus on Destroyers, Cruisers, and the Graf Zeppelin Carrier.
2. Continue With Aircraft production, and don't slow down production.
3. Launch an attack at the RAF bases and Radar facilities.
4. DON'T USE RIVER BARGES!
5. Develop a successful landing craft.
6. Have night paratrooper landings and night glider landings. Land around 6,000 Men of Paratroopers around England, to cause terror.

Thats a lovely list of ASB stats you have there, but then you do believe in sealions...:p
The sort of aircraft you describe isnt going to be buildable by 1943, for a start the engines arent available. And of course, the Germans will get the fuel for the damn thing from WHERE? BioEngineered Sealions?

The Royal Navy will thank you with abig hug for not building those U-boats, and any normal naval race with the UK is doomed to failure. The RN can simply build more and faster (a LOT more...)
Launch attacks on radar and airfields..what you mean like they did? Read Michells A Better Show
And of course the RN will sit there in stunned admiration while they devlop this wonder landing craft.
6,000 men scarreted around the UK like confetti will, I suppose, provide the Home Guard with some useful excercise...

Mad, totally mad.
 
Alright, could the Ju-390, in my opinion one of the craft that could've entered service had enough range to bomb NYC. Also in my opinion you can get a successful Sealion, but with German Strategic Bombing.
Here are my opinions of a successful Amerika Bombing

1. Have a combat radius of 3850 miles to hit Cincinnati, and several near mid-west and east coast facilities.
2. Have a payload of at the minimum 8,000lbs.
3. Be able to have it defendable from all points (Nose Gun, Ball Turret 1, Ball Turret 2, Tail Turret, Top Turret (1), (Top Turret 2), Waist Gun Left (1), Waist Gun Right (1), (Waist Gun Left 2), (Waist Gun Right 2))
4. Be able to have mid-air refueling
5. Get into service by early 1943
6. Start the project in 1937, to have best results :)

And watch them get slaughtered on the way to, over, and from (if there are any left) their targets in the U.S. without a long-range fighter to support them. Does this presuppose a successful Sealion or are they flying from fields in mainland Europe? If the latter, the price of getting past Britain alone would make the effort a waste of time.
And if those Germans had decided to do the following, they would have gotten a successful Sealion.

1. Don't build as many U-Boats, and focus on Destroyers, Cruisers, and the Graf Zeppelin Carrier.
2. Continue With Aircraft production, and don't slow down production.
3. Launch an attack at the RAF bases and Radar facilities.
4. DON'T USE RIVER BARGES!
5. Develop a successful landing craft.
6. Have night paratrooper landings and night glider landings. Land around 6,000 Men of Paratroopers around England, to cause terror.

I won't even begin. What Astrodragon said.
 
Have a combat radius of 3850 miles to hit Cincinnati

I'm sensing some hostility toward Cincinnati here.


And if those Germans had decided to do the following, they would have gotten a successful Sealion.

1. Don't build as many U-Boats, and focus on Destroyers, Cruisers, and the Graf Zeppelin Carrier.
2. Continue With Aircraft production, and don't slow down production.
3. Launch an attack at the RAF bases and Radar facilities.
4. DON'T USE RIVER BARGES!
5. Develop a successful landing craft.
6. Have night paratrooper landings and night glider landings. Land around 6,000 Men of Paratroopers around England, to cause terror.
That loud thumping sound you are hearing are countless AH.com members hitting their heads against their desks. Why? Because it feels so good when it stops.

Let's leave aside the facts that Germany has now committed their entire arms production to a military strategy that can have only one possible target, and that even Neville Chamberlain will be motivated to do something about this.

A Germany so fixated on Great Britain will be neglecting the production of arms that would be useful in a war against the Soviet Union.

And yes, Stalin and his generals will notice this.
 
No more u-boats... Didnt those tend to be useful? Also, how are you going to train those people to jump out of planes so quickly? It makes more sense to just have had Hitler let the British escape Dunkirk only to have a few dozen subs ram and shoot everything. Just make the ships need to stop so they dont run into people and send wreckage everywhere. Not very practical, of course.
 
A Germany so fixated on Great Britain will be neglecting the production of arms that would be useful in a war against the Soviet Union.

And yes, Stalin and his generals will notice this.

Who cares about Stalin, if Germany wants half a chance of matching the British fleet they're not getting through Poland anytime soon.
 
Who cares about Stalin, if Germany wants half a chance of matching the British fleet they're not getting through Poland anytime soon.

The point was that if Germany concentrates its arms industry on an invasion of Great Britain the Eastern Front won't start with a German invasion of the Soviet Union.

It will start with a Soviet Union invasion of Germany.
 
The point was that if Germany concentrates its arms industry on an invasion of Great Britain the Eastern Front won't start with a German invasion of the Soviet Union.

It will start with a Soviet Union invasion of Germany.

I know, but that ignores the fact that Germany won't be able to defeat Poland in the first place.
 
And if those Germans had decided to do the following, they would have gotten a successful Sealion.

1. Don't build as many U-Boats, and focus on Destroyers, Cruisers, and the Graf Zeppelin Carrier.
2. Continue With Aircraft production, and don't slow down production.
3. Launch an attack at the RAF bases and Radar facilities.
4. DON'T USE RIVER BARGES!
5. Develop a successful landing craft.
6. Have night paratrooper landings and night glider landings. Land around 6,000 Men of Paratroopers around England, to cause terror.

Lucky for everyone it didn't occur to them then.......:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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Keep Wever alive and it might be possible

Not really. Neither of long-ranged bombers being developed under Weaver (Ju-89 and Do-19) could possibly have served this role. For that matter, even the USA, with its committment to strategic bombing and virtual immunity from invasion, was unable to develop a true transatlantic bomber until the B-36. Nazi pipe dreams!
 
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