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I once read about Stalin plans to made small number of heavy 4 engine dive bombers to attack and sink british fleet in their harbour - but apparently he was smart enough to abadonn that stupid idea. Well,tat is one of reasons whu genocider Stalin win,and genocider Hitler lost - Stalin have...

Germans,not nazis.And they did it in many other places,for example making many kind of trucks instead choose few and mass produce it. Once i read article that Hitler wonted as many as possible german factories making their own stuff,but it seems too strange to be true.

I recently discovered,that germans made prototype of jet dive-bomber Hs132.Soviets take it,but never mass produced. Was jet dive bomber bad idea,or soviets simply were unable to copy that ?

Indeed.Even 1.000 dive bombers would not save France,if they do not change doctrine.

some article about french navy.torpedo bomber would be either Snacao Cao 600 or Dewointe. Dive bomber - first was light bomber B.693 developed into dive version B.698,which would be turned into naval dive B.810.

I recently discovered,that french navy had some dive bombers in 1940,both american and french,and used them against german tanks.Unfortunatelly, i knew nothing about how good they were. Interesting thing - next generation of navy dive bombers would have two engines/Breguet B.810/,the same goes...

Valid questions. 1.Japaneese would not sell D3,but they have obsolate biplanes D1A - and made 590 of them.If they sell only 200,it would be enough to starve Malta in 1941./As long as they would have fighter escort and target only transports/ 2.Germans stopped production of Hs123 in 1939,so...

Then building dive bomber instead of Ba 65 from the start.They could simle copy american biplane dive bombers,just like they copied P.35 and made Re 2000.Or buy japanesse one,they were allies.And japaneese biplane dive bombers would be enough for transports.

Sorry,@ShadowArxxy is right,it was SM85. Italian really need other - that is why i say about dive version of Breda 65.And they made poor bomber Breda 88,which later was converted into dive version/few prototypes/ if they built it from the start as dive bomber and add dive Breda 65,torpedo...

I read,that italian actually made some dive bombers in 1940 /SM86/ but never used them.Officially,becouse british fighters would massacre them. Which was stupid - british in beginning of 1941 had 3 squadrons of Hurricane in Egypt,and their naval fighters till the end of 1941 was Fulmars,which...

No,only that if 2 battleships in 1941 was capable of destroing only 4 bombers known for their iflammability,average convoy would do not fare better against much safer italian planes. And british fighters who could help them would be easy keep away by every italian fighter. All they need was to...

Not magically.Simply combo of torpedo and dive bombers attacking only transport could have break Malta,when in OTL there were only torpedo bombers which attacked mostly warships. And Malta bombers sunked less italian transports then submarines attacking from islands - but both dangers would be...

First and more important - Merry Christmas. Now,back to topic. Italian torpedo bombers in 1941 was ordered attack warships first,that is why they sunk so little ships for Malta. But if both torpedo and dive bombers attacked at the same time with fighter escort targeting only transport ship,then...

Who said about wonder weapons ? if they combined their attack with torpedo bombers,get fighters and target transport ships instead of warships,Malta would fall. Which means more transports for Rommel.Which means taken Egypt.Which means longer war and less countries taken by soviets.

I remember some old american movie from WW2 about torpedo boats on Philippines,which in the movie sunked japaneese carrier.Unfortunatelly,i forget tittle. Back to topic - i just read about italian torpedo bombers in 1940.They never attacked in more then 10 planes,usually without fighter...

Problem is - soviet planes do not even found her.Not only that - all german cruisers on Baltic supported german land forces till they were out of ammo,and one last pocket battleship was sunked by...british heavy bombers. Not mention Rudel,who in his Ju87 destroyed soviet tanks till the end of...

Soviet in 1941 had 3:1 advantage in air - and still lost.Polish totally obsolate air forces fought better. And even in 1944,when soviets encircled GA North after destroing GA Center german just send ONE cruiser who destroyed soviet blocking force - thanks to coordination made by her Ar-196...

Ju88 was created as horizontal bomber,but later on East front used mostly in dive version/and against Allies as night fighter/ And it do not mattered how much medium bomber could carry,when they were good only to hit very big targets,like factories. For anything smaller you need dive bomber or...

Sorry if i was unclear,but i do not belive that dive bombers were magic cure.Only that horizontal bombers till heavy bombers come was waste of resources against any enemy with good fighters. And becouse countries with poor fighters,like Poland fell quickly,after that anybody should made either...

In 1940 RAF had only tree dyvisions of Hurricanes in Egypt,and their fleet still used Fulmars,which had problems with japaneese dive bombers in 1942.And get massacred by D.520 in Syria. But AA would be problem. And italian aviators were quite good,their problem was weak engines/that is why they...