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Offline B17Skull12

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what do you think was the best world war 2 bomber???????
« on: June 07, 2003, 11:24:44 PM »
Hey i just to know what you all think was the best WWII bomber mine is the B-29
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« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2003, 11:42:10 PM »
once again, the P47D30
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Offline Duedel

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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2003, 02:59:26 AM »
The Arado Ar234 for sure
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2003, 04:12:12 AM »
Depends completely on the task you need to do.

Lancaster for its ability to carry extreme bombloads
Arado 234 for being the most advanced WW2 bomber in operational use
Junkers Ju 88 for multirole
B-29 for the extreme in daylight high altitude armed bomber
Ju-87 for the ultimate in CAS & "long range cannon" of Wehrmacht

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Offline HoHun

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Re: what do you think was the best world war 2 bomber???????
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2003, 05:32:26 AM »
Hi Skull,

De Havilland Mosquito.

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« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2003, 07:51:48 AM »
Mosquito

It was a great bomber from its introduction to the end of the war.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2003, 08:12:22 AM »
B29 of course. Think of it this way if you could only have 1000 bombers of only one type in your whole WW2 airfoce what would you choose?  Nothing combines the range, speed, altitude performance, survivability, protection and payload of the B29 - in fact no production bomber even comes close.
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« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2003, 09:07:30 AM »
Hi Grünherz,

>Think of it this way if you could only have 1000 bombers of only one type in your whole WW2 airfoce what would you choose?

You have a point there. However, I'd not ask for a fixed number of bombers but for a fixed amount of money to spend on them. I'm not sure about the cost of a B-29, but I'd bet it was the most expensive of them all.

So the adequate comparison might be something like 300 B-29s versus 1000 Mosquitos - which would yield a quite different picture.

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« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2003, 10:07:17 AM »
comparing capabilities of late war bombers with rather early designs, even with ones which are designed for totally different purpose...  is like comparing apples and oranges.
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Offline Dr Zhivago

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« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2003, 11:27:29 AM »
Mosquito got lowest loss rate as a % of sorties than any other aircraft in british bomber command...
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« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2003, 11:42:54 AM »
Does anyone have numbers on sorties flown, loss rates or tons of ordiance dropped.

That would be interesting to compare.
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Offline Dr Zhivago

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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2003, 11:54:05 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by F4UDOA
Does anyone have numbers on sorties flown, loss rates or tons of ordiance dropped.

That would be interesting to compare.


http://www.danshistory.com/ww2/britishb.shtml
http://www.danshistory.com/ww2/usab.shtml

http://www.nucleus.com/~ltwright/bc-stats.html
http://www.nucleus.com/%7Evwright/Groups.htm

:rolleyes:
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« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2003, 02:42:24 PM »
mossie! and it was just as multi-role as the ju88
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« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2003, 06:42:48 PM »
most advanced B29
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« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2003, 06:50:30 PM »
Ar-234 hands down.

BTW, in AH it's funny to keep the RATOs, bomb, and as 35 bish fighters line up on you...


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