Japanese-German air bridge through Arctic (with in-flight refueling)

Is this scheme plausible?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 25.0%
  • No

    Votes: 21 75.0%

  • Total voters
    28

trurle

Banned
You might find this of interest:

https://sites.google.com/site/junkersju390/home/ju-390-flight-to-japan

Via the arc of a great circle, planes flying from German-occupied Ukraine could reach Japanese held territory in China....

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Consistent with my data. Japanese authorities have finalized decision to honour Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact 10 August 1941, therefore one BV-222 flight with overflight of Soviet territory in 22 June - 10 August 1941 interval is plausible.
Also by 1945, The Norway-Bering Strait-Paramushir route was done even without aerial refueling. I wonder if aerial refueling could speed up communications a bit?
 
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trurle

Banned
Possible, yes
Safe , not when the allies get wind of it.
Running the Bering strait would be very dangerous.
It is 260km from Nome/Marks to western end of Bering strait, making fighter and radar coverage marginal at best (especially if you take in to the account sea ice and polar darkness).
Of course, US can give one radar to install on Soviet end of Bering strait, but this is plausible since late 1943 if plausible at all.
IOTL, US lend-leased to Soviet Union only 6 long-range SCR-270/271, and i suspect none of these could be spared for anything other than a large city. Actually i suspect these 6 US radars went in pairs to Anti-Air Corps of Moscow, Leningrad and Baku.
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/LL-Ship/LL-Ship-5.html
(see page 32)
 
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Consistent with my data. Japanese authorities have finalized decision to honour Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact 10 August 1941, therefore one BV-222 flight with overflight of Soviet territory in 22 June - 10 August 1941 interval is plausible.
Also by 1945, The Norway-Bering Strait-Paramushir route was done even without aerial refueling. I wonder if aerial refueling could speed up communications a bit?

A more northern route would need to take account of erratic arctic weather, as compared to the route taken by the JU-390 flight.
 
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