German Long-Range Fighters

What would the effects be if Nazi Germany began work on a long-range fighter in 1934/35?

The longer range would probably be a secondary attribute to the fighter as a whole, but it could act as an escort for German bombers. How would the Battle of Britain be affected if the Germans had these long-range escorts?

What do you think?
 
It could have given the RAF a problem but seeing the Germans developing a long range fighter in '34/5 what would be the butterflies from that within the Allies? Also as with the heavy bomber any resources going here are taken from other projects.
 
Germany actually did work on a long range fighter at that time and introduced the plane in 1937. As you can see it made no difference at all.
Actually germans had very good plane to that role, Fw 187 "Falke", but somehow they (Goering) managed to ruin all plans. Falke was excellent fighter and I think that BoB would have ended very differently.
 
What would the effects be if Nazi Germany began work on a long-range fighter in 1934/35?

The longer range would probably be a secondary attribute to the fighter as a whole, but it could act as an escort for German bombers. How would the Battle of Britain be affected if the Germans had these long-range escorts?

What do you think?

I think you are describing OTL.

Check the Me110/210/410.
 
Actually germans had very good plane to that role, Fw 187 "Falke", but somehow they (Goering) managed to ruin all plans. Falke was excellent fighter and I think that BoB would have ended very differently.

It's speed was 330mph with a range of 900 miles against 350mph and 1,500 miles for the Me 110. Don't start telling me about the difference the DB 600 engines would have made because any increase in speed would be at the expense of range and maneuverability. With the additional weight of the larger engines there would have to be an increase in wing area reducing the advantage of the compact layout of the design.
 
doesnt change the basic math
i explored a tangent on this of a thread where i posed what would happen if the fw190 was ready for bob

basically even with improved fighters the germans lack the industrial capacity to generate enough planes to get air supremecy over britain
also germany after the battle of france was seriously short of trained air crews hence why they flew the same pilots till they wore out got sloppy and got shot down
 
How much industrial capacity does Germany need to generate enough planes to win air supremecy, or more appropriately air superiority, over Britain? Is not a 40% superiority in total warmaking potential over Britain in 1937, or a similar superiority in the shares of world manufacturing output in 1938, enough for Germany to build sufficient planes to defeat the RAF in 1940? (Paul Kennedy, Rise and Fall.... pp330-332).
 
look at black thursday for the luftwaffe 75 losses in one day and with these type of losses again not just equipment which wasnt superior to britain any way but pilots (ie brit pilots can parachute out and fight again)

given the different theatres of war the luftwaffe was contastantly overstretched after bob luftflotte 3 was a back water with a couple hundred planes whilst the brits where deploying many times more

speer consistently complained the german production even augmented by czechoslovakia and austria still failed to meet german quotas from 1918
their production was dilutory in 1939 and 1940 and allowed britain to catch up in the air
 
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