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Given the actual number of Condors built, is the transfer of resources going to produce anything like a useful number of aircraft?
Going to 4-engined 'heavy' aircraft rather than 2-engined would, if 1938?? RAF figures are correct, reduce the cost, labour required, number of engines required, flying personnel and maintenance personnel per lb of bombs dropped but would they be dropped anywhere useful??
Then there is the effect of reduced aircraft 1939 to May/June 1940, what effect is that going to have?
Given the slack in the German aero industry caused by the numerous butterflies relating to Walter Wever's death in 1936, the German aero industry would have more resources and would produce more aircraft and engines ITTL due to Wever surviving, making it the worry about resources moot. Milch actually having control over production as he did before Wever's death IOTL would result in far greater improvements in production that more than offset the cost of a small Do19 program. Udet wouldn't be in charge and would never achieve a position in the technical department, meaning Wilhelm Wimmer, Fritz Loeb, and Wolfram von Richthofen would all remain in the technical department tremendously improving Germany's production and the quality of aircraft, not to mention prevent the enormous production and development fuck ups of the OTL Luftwaffe from 1936-1941.
But hypothetically speaking the early canceling of the Do17 in 1938 would free up major resources. Hell, cancel the Me210, which began tooling in 1939 before the first prototype even flew and revealed its seriously flawed design and Germany would have huge resources to devote to an improved Do 19.