The Start (And Near End) Of German Heavy Bombers In WW2: Junkers Ju 89

[@jimjamauto]

They didn't build many heavy payload aircraft because they only needed a few to carry one Hermann Goering around

[@seanmalloy7249]

Didn't Der Führer order a stop to the use of barrage balloons?

[@bigblue6917]

This may be why he had his own train

[@spinnetti]

What's the Hermann payload? lol.

[@MrCarcass1978]

i.e. Fat Controller.

[@MyCaptainPugwash]

Well they had to be large enough to carry his drug supply, ego, mistresses and incompetence.

[@quintonb9870]

For the past couple months I've taken to watching your videos every night(and I'll watch this one in a few hours). Unfortunately I never get more than half way through before I fall asleep. Other creators don't do that nearly as consistently as you. I know... That doesn't sound like a compliment AT ALL. I mean it as one though. Your videos are insightful, interesting, humorous, and relaxing to watch. I don't know if it's your voice, the way you present things, the cadence, or what it is, but your videos consistently put me in a relaxed state. You're making great content! Keep up the good work!

[@RemusKingOfRome]

I never knew Wever died because of his own stupidity, I only got that info here. Well done. As to falling asleep, I do that all the time. Sit down to watch "LOTR" and wake up to see the end of "Saving Private Frodo" .. and wonder what Frodo was doing in Normandy ???

[@BrianSmith-ql5nj]

​@@RemusKingOfRome😂😂

[@ronjones1077]

It is great to learn about some of the more obscure flying machines. Thank you for your delving into the archives of history!

[@daveanderson3805]

Great video. Yours is one of the best channels on military aviation on YT. You're quite good at digging up the more obscure subjects and providing great detail. Well done 👍

[@petemonster1]

Thank you so much for your videos. They seem fair/balanced, well researched and articulated. I value this information. Happy New Year to you.

[@dag_gamercave]

Wait, hold on.. an *American* history KZbinr, who actually realizes that most of the English speaking internet is *not* American, and therefore *uses the metric system in his videos? AN AMERICAN DOES THIS...?* I'm subscribing for this fact alone.

[@kundeleczek1]

Don't sound like native speaker

[@ThommyofThenn]

​@@kundeleczek1whom?

[@ThommyofThenn]

I am american but i got used to Metric long ago and tend to think in these terms now. I used to think I had a hard time visualising scale but it was, in truth due to the units

[@deltavee2]

Thanks for an interesting post and Happy New Year!

[@Icehawk2k7]

It is honestly kinda funny that Hitler and the Nazis loved putting resources into giant artillery (Gustav cannon) Giant tanks (King Tiger, Maus, E100) but for some reason they didn't get behind big strategic aircraft. Better for us in the end that they didn't as the Ju 89 clearly had potential.

[@米空軍パイロット]

The Ju-89 got developed into the Ju-90 and later Ju-290. In its original iteration, the Ju-89 was an outdated design for 1938.

[@johnholt890]

Nazi Germany did go for gigantic aircraft though Ju 390. BV 222 and BV 238 and the Me 363. Only the last was in any numbers and had any sort of impact.

[@sthrich635]

Not really funny but rather practical decision, Germany still got some steel but not much oil. Long range bombers were exponentially more fuel consuming than German standard fighter/dive bomber - 4 engines meant 4 times fuel consumption, then multiplied by longer distance to fly, and finally the return trip multiplied the whole cost by 2. And then Germany had to operate a fleet of these, plus with a suitable long range escort fighters to with.

[@danteardenz2670]

German big guns was about sustained fire on fortresses etc . They had very advanced ballistics , and saw these aa saving fuel, and resources. The Luftwaffe was built as a tactical force for Continental operations backing up mobile warfare. It was a matter of resource priorities, after Britian , and France declared war on Germany, September 3, 1939 .

[@ronaldannas1935]

Hitler didn't like to fly, one reason. Another is that he grew up in a time when aircraft was a new weapon system. His tactics focused on what was proven weapon systems; artillery, tanks, ships, and bolt action rifles.

[@solarflare623]

I really didn’t do much. My grandma came over and we watched the rose bowl parade and that’s basically it.

[@solarflare623]

@@colinhooper1933 nope. That’s genuinely what I did on new years

[@jimsvideos7201]

The math indicates that a Mark 84 should be called “acre shaker.”

[@tylernathan7985]

3 acre shaker.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

GrandSlam, take _that_ Planet Earth.

[@robertpainter8044]

The mark 84 is a firecracker compared to something like a Tallboy or MOAB..

[@frank-y8n]

Kesselring was politically astute enough to return to the Luftwaffe when it was reformed in the 'fifties.

[@shawns0762]

The Ju 89 broke a record when it carried a 22,000 pound bombload in 1938. If it was put into production it would have received far stronger engines and the performance would have increased significantly. The wings were unique, very high lift and swept.

[@sergeychmelev5270]

Hmm, must be something else to that record. TB-3 on 9/20/1936 carried 26,000lb.

[@shawns0762]

@sergeychmelev5270 Yes, it reached a high altitude with it

[@thamesmud]

Those wings are no more "swept" than on a DC3. It probably shared with the DC3 unpleasant stall characteristics resulting from stalls starting at the wing root instead of the tip.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Another excellent video, very detailed. "..Rudolf the red nosed na .." LOL I was modding CIV5 during the break.

[@robdgaming]

Thanks for an overview of several key projects for WWII-era German heavy bombers. The photo of the DB600 engine is upside down, it was an inverted vee.

[@bamboosa]

The Horton was actually a brilliant bomber design - the big tailless flying wing with jet engines and without computerized flight adjustments required a very experienced and busy pilot. GEHR-ing.

[@98erics]

That "Rudolph the Red Nosed Nazi" line got me good dude. Thanks for the laugh and the video!

[@harrybosch4595]

16:09 But the Ju 89 V2 prototype was faster than the Boeing Model 299 and it didn’t crash during its evaluation. Afterwards the Germans decided strategic bombing wasn’t worth it for them. Meanwhile the US soldiered on and used obsolete, underperforming 1936 bombing designs in 1943, 1944 and 1945 at a tremendous cost in lives and materials.

[@thomasryan6545]

Have you done a video on the Ju 86?

[@tauncfester3022]

Yeah I've mentioned this a couple times. It's probably coming.

[@529wes]

Well, the Germans did attempt to develop a heavy bomber, the HE 177 which due to its two prop design and its glide or dive bomb potential was for all intents a flop. Its failure goes hand in hand with the German obsession with the dive bomber. Following the war, the French utilized a modified four prop HE 177 for a short period. Wish there had been more discussion of the development of the HE 177 in this video.

[@davidbrennan660]

British wartime Aircraft Recognition charts used by the era RAF and Observer Corp ( pre 1941 name) still showed the Ju89 in the early forties….. mind you, the He 112 was on it as well so I guess they were covering as many bases as possible.

[@marting1056]

well the prototyp of the B17, the Boing Model 299 had engins with 700hp each, not much difference there and it crashed with killing both testpilots. If the project would have been stopped there it would have left a very bad reputation.

[@andyc3088]

Mark 84 bomb came into service in the Vietnam War, not during the Second World War.

[@nemilyk]

21:23 omg I haven't busted out laughing that hard in ages XD

[@litestuffllc7249]

Obviously a synopsis - but - First the USSR did Join with the Axis to invade Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states in 1939. Secondly the FW 200 Condor was available as a basis for a heavy bomber for Germany it had 4 engines, long range and good payload first flew in 1937. The most accurate thing you said was the Germany chose to focus on support of the Blitz Krieg tactic which demanded accurate delivery of bombs - hence the dive bombing concept - it was the only thing you could do with tech in WWII that could deliver bombs in close to a target. High altitude bombing in WWII usually didn't fall within 5 miles of the target so even 20 football feids of destruction wasn't enough..so they bombed cities.

[@allangibson8494]

The Condor was however fragile - a lot were lost in landing accidents when the fuselage broke behind the wing. Adding bombs made this worse. The B-29’s advantage was it flew at altitudes out of the reach of ground based anti aircraft artillery and could outmanoeuvre fighters at its cruise altitude (thanks to its massive wings).

[@sergeychmelev5270]

USSR did not join Axis. For that a formal treaty of alliance must exist which never was. It was a co-belligerence. Even less of co-belligerence than in case of Finland, as USSR did not even allow the German military on its land. Also, Belarus was not invaded as it was part of USSR from the beginning. What happened is land previously occupied by Poland was given back to Belarus (while being part of USSR, or course).

[@allangibson8494]

@ The Molotov Ribbentrop pact included a set of secret protocols permitting the occupation of all the Baltic States (Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) and the partitioning of Poland by the Soviets. The Soviets supplied fuel to Germany in exchange.

[@sergeychmelev5270]

@@allangibson8494 look up the definition of a military alliance. There was none between USSR and Germany, even in those secret protocols.

[@litestuffllc7249]

@@sergeychmelev5270 If it walks like a duck, it flies like a duck, it quacks like a duck; its a duck. Aren't you splitting hairs? They cooperated and agreed on the splitting of other nations and lands; they litterally attacked Poland on both sides cooperatively. Their treaty specified all this in an agreement. Had the war ended in 1940 what would one say.

[@choochoo9436]

That's sort of like 'heavy machine guns' The MG42 when used on a bipod was a MG but when used on a lafette mount ground mount was called a heavy machine gun.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

With machine guns it's mostly about the role not actual weight or weight of throw.

[@riekopo7638]

What do you mean by altitude? what altitude exactly?

[@briancavanagh7048]

A couple points: 1. Your comment about just adding dive brakes to many of the Luftwaffe aircraft. The extra stresses to perform dive bombing on a multi engined bomber, like the He177, required significant strengthening of the structure. This put the aircraft overweight for any other mission. 2. The hypothesis about the Luftwaffe fielding a strategic heavy bomber force ignores the fact that the Germany would be unable to afford such a venture in any significant numbers. The cost of building larger factories, the sourcing of production manufacturing manpower, the aircrew training, building longer air fields and concrete aprons with taxis ways and the additional maintenance & support service. The later 2 years of the air war shows the lack of resources available to Germany. The US was the only country that could afford heavy bombers and a strategic bomber campaign. Britain was able to mount a strategic bombing campaign, but essentially went broke after the war.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

The “they lost because of lack of resources” so popular on KZbin doesn’t hold water when considering Germany had all the resources of the entire European continent - including free slave labour. They were simply incompetent, corrupt and complacent.

[@williamzk9083]

-The decision to cancel the Junkers Ju 89 and Dornier 19 was made toward the end of 1937. At the time the nightmare scenario for military planners like Kesselring was a simultaneous Polish French Invasion with maybe Britain and Czechoslovakia joining in. Poland or France could have done it alone at the time and //france in fact had invaded the Saar Ruhr region. -Tactical aircraft for direct army support such Light & Medium bombers and dive bombers were needed to immediately support the German army defeat any invasion. They were needed to bomb troop concentrations, bridges transferring troops and supplies, railway marshaling yard, airfields, bunkers (especially dive bombers) etc. Bombing factories in cities over 1500km away was a low priority when enemy troops and tanks were already on German soil. -So it was thought that Germany couldn't afford strategic bombers, besides the 2 engine bombers could still bomb cities from Germany as far away as the UK. -Eventually the thinking came to be that Germany could afford strategic bombers so long as they could also act as a tactical aircraft. -Hence this lead them to the Strategic dive bomber, the He 177A, which was started in the same year as the cancellation of the Ju 89/Do 19. -This requirement demanded a two engine layout to handle the aeroelastic flutter issues in a dive. Unfortunatly the two power pants required the DB606 (coupled engines) and Jumo 222A/B were suffering problems and delays plus the extreme engineering was causing problem on the He 177A itself. -The dive bombing requirement was removed by Goering in 1942 and the aircraft supposedly entered service but it wasn't really in service till mid 1943. By all accounts it had matured by the end of the year. -Ironically the German introduced two new bombs sight in 1942 that made dive bombing redundant. The Lotfe 7 computing bomb sight worked was fantastically accurate and the StuVi 5B shallow dive bombing sight which computed a continuous impact point for bombs and position the reticle of the reflector sight the pilot used accordingly. It allowed a Ju 88 to bomb at 22 degrees, typically diving from 8000ft with pull up complete by 5000ft it was as accurate as dive bombing. Ju 88 had their dive brakes removed and gained 10mph speed (295 to 305 with bomb racks)

[@RandomNumber-z1d]

In some alternate world, Wever didn't die in 1936, the Germans had a balanced air force in 1940, with a long-range strategic bombing force, and the Battle of Britain went very differently.

[@kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkiki]

AI Image detected at 8:31

[@martinschaefer9581]

yeah funny how they queue in opposite directions

[@TimTheInspector]

I like the guy standing on the street with his feet on backwards

[@KevinBower-gy5be]

My favourite is the famous Joseph Merrick aka 'The Elephant Man' 4th from left. Yet another reminder that current tech is more 'A' than 'I' .....

[@WimsicleStranger]

I noticed that, too lol. It almost passes initial scrutiny until I noticed the letters are weird, the shingles are all warped, and of course their bodies being twisted 180 degrees

[@anzaca1]

Is it, though? Do you have proof?

[@mylezzpurhourr]

These videos are quite comforting when you’re a sickling 😂

[@contrawise]

I have seen a video about Germany attempting to develop a long-range bomber that could be used against the US. And that Junkers took the project on. It sounds to me like a very different mindset than what has been discussed here.

[@travisgravelle7687]

I could see how the basic design of the 89 could have been improved upon without much change to the basic aircraft. Better engines, with those big wings, would have really upped its capacity.

[@markstott6689]

I watched Battle of the Five Armies with my 10 year old daughter for New Year Eve. My 7-year-old son tried to stay up, but i had to put him to bed around 10.30pm. He tried protesting but was asleep within 90 seconds of his head touching the pillow. 😊❤❤❤😊

[@brookeshenfield7156]

Hey! Doing great and Mahalo for asking, bruh. Aloha!

[@tauncfester3022]

Just to add a correction: The Soviets didn't really move a majority their war material factories beyond the Urals until after 1941. Stalin was somewhat prescient about the coming conflict with Germany.

[@sim.frischh9781]

I played Total War Warhammer 3 with a friend for Sylvester. Was fun.

[@MisterOcclusion]

Goerings quote makes me shake my head. It's not the first time that the theme of politics doing as much damage to the nazi state as the enemy did, has come up. Infighting and politics everywhere. It has to have shortened the war in europe.

[@anzaca1]

Not politics, rather people in a dictatorship all fighting each other.

[@sthrich635]

So-called "damages from infighting" was more of post-war exaggeration and a WW2-version of stab-in-the-back myth by German commanders refusing to admit Allied strength. Every nation command structure, Axis or Allies, had some political rivalry and competition - nothing out of ordinary as many people had many "best" idea in their mind, but only one or a few could be chosen realistically, and of course in reality not all these ideas as best as they said. If anything, the politics of Germany did more to somewhat streamlined weapon research directions, since every designer had to work towards a single dictator and his military direction, which was especially important since limited resources and time in Germany prohibited effective multi-directional development of its weapon. From the bigger picture, the Heer was the main focus for Germany's conquest, and the pre-war development of two other arms Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine were to support it mainly: Luftwaffe prioritized short range frontline fighter and dive bombers that closely support the advancing Heer, while Kreigsmarine main U-boat fleet were to sink convoy ships which would damage the logistics of land troops and weaken them for Heer. So no, it didn't really shortened the war but prolonged it.

[@geesehoward700]

just as well germany never figured out it could build heavy and medium bombers

[@bourbonstjoeNOLA]

I worked New Years Eve and New Years Day ( retail ). I was in bed by 21:00 both nights 😂

[@markcutteridge5093]

Wouldn't the FW 200 Kondor predate the Ju89?

[@emdenny10]

These things were supposed to distract from the actual idea and not do anything other than be a failure. It's obvious that this whole thing was managed.

[@powellmountainmike8853]

What did I do for New Year's ? Starting New Year's Eve evening I DJ'd a party in the economic / financial chatroom I frequent, culminating beginning at 11:15 PM with a New Year's TV broadcast of Guy Lombardo from the 1950s, which had the lighted ball in Times Square in NYC coming down at midnight. My posting of the show was such that if the folks in the room started watching when I posted it, the timing would be right. A good time was had by all.

[@csjrogerson2377]

Problem is a lack of definitions of medium, heavy and long range.

[@harrybosch4595]

Even at 1.5x speed the narrative is at a slow pace. Do you always talk this slow or do you use slowdown as a way to increase running time?

[@gratefulguy4130]

Why all the oddly off topic comments? What wires did youtube cross this time?

[@comentedonakeyboard]

With great abitions come difficult requirements.

[@randallreed9048]

Remember that there is a critical difference between commercial construction and military construction. The Me-200 is a prime example of that. Under combat conditions, a major criticism of this originally commercial airliner was that is simply did not hold up. When attempting a military operation, the increasing numbers of unavailable aircraft was a hinderance.

[@espenbjerke665]

4+ engines ;) also germany didnt technically have heavy bombers bc they fought blitzkrieg and after that it was mostly defensive, you dond need huge 4 engine bombers to defend bewrlin or hamburg

[@90lancaster]

If you happen to be old enough to have played the original Megaman game on its release. You would also be old enough now to be a Grand Parent.

[@kevindevine5033]

Neither the imperial army air force nor navy ever produced a successful 4 engine heavy bomber before the nakajima G8N renzan. And that never flew.

[@goaway7346]

So, the Soviets were never going to join the Axis, you say. Who helped Germany rearm in the 1930s? Who invaded Poland in 1939? Who had a formal non-aggression pact with one another? Germany and Russia were on the same side until June 1941.

[@richardjakobek7477]

But but but … what about the Fw 200 Condor ?

[@WolfeSaber]

That wasn't a bomber

[@richardjakobek7477]

Not initially no, but it could carry a 1,000kg bomb load and was used against shipping in the North Atlantic. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_200_Condor

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

​@@richardjakobek7477and you explained it perfectly. Maritime strike aircraft. Not used for strategic bombing.

[@allangibson8494]

The Condor was fragile. They frequently suffered catastrophic failures on landing with the fuselage breaking behind the wing.

[@jagsdomain203]

Why did the access force is not use turrets of any kind like the B-17 the original model didn't have a ball to it but once they put that in that's all they used it seem like we used it the rich used it but nobody else seemed to like them

[@GARDENER42]

Germany actually had sufficient oil right through until mid 1943, when the Allies' "Oil Plan" targeted both Germany's synthetic oil production & the Ploesti oilfields in Romania. These attacks did more to weaken the Nazis than Russia's war efforts.

[@allangibson8494]

Germany had half its oil needs met by Russian imports from 1939 to 1941. The entire first two years of WW2 were fueled by Russian oil (including the invasion of Russia). Synthetic oil came in 1943.

[@timbirch4999]

This claim does not ring true to me. Where did you find this claim?

[@sthrich635]

That's a bit of misconception - More accurate to say Germany managed to somewhat "balance" its fuel consumption by controlling its demand. German armies at the start were like 80% majority horse-drawn foot soldiers, before 1943 it also had less mechanized / tank divisions (and total number of mobilized divisions as well) And then Germany didn't have much of a surface navy to begin with. Not really that Germany had spare fuel - it just budgeted it very tightly.

[@timyo6288]

Ur Mom did more to weaken us

[@BrianSmith-ql5nj]

Sounds like sacred cow shipyards channel

[@davidbrennan660]

All this work to get the He I77….as a ghost.

[@tombogan03884]

The biggest goal was RANGE.

[@KevinBower-gy5be]

Good evening IHYLS - how's it going? (You see what I did there?) I really, really enjoy your videos. But I spend endless sleepness nights wondering what you look like. Maybe one day, fans like me will get to find out. Greetings from England.

[@timyo6288]

Gay

[@coreyandnathanielchartier3749]

There were a hundred officers in the Luftwaffe that could have ran their air campaigns better than G Don't ever forget that if Hitler hadn't went east after USSR, USSR would have came west after Europe. Also, there was a time not all that distant(before the Wars), that GB was considering allying with Japan against the USA. Stalin was toying around with joining this 'Anglo-Axis'. None of this 19th-early-20th century history is every talked about.

[@onenote6619]

The great Nazi asset-stripping tour of 1939 was pretty much doomed from the start. The only thing that might have made it work was speed. Heavy bombers are about attritional warfare, not speed.

[@FrostyCatPanzerV]

You all know why germany didn’t have strategic airforce, right?

[@Zbigniew_Nowak]

And what do you think about the thread from such a movie that the Germans allegedly couldn't make long-range planes because they didn't have tetraethyl lead and the engines warmed up during long flights? The entire spy plot of the movie was based on this, but I don't know if it has any connection with reality at all?

[@ethanmckinney203]

The Germans produced leaded gasoline--IG Farben got a license in 1935 and its use was known by everyone. Second, leaded gas prevents knock in high-compression engines. It doesn't keep the engine cool on long flights.

[@ppszthunder]

Hey IHYLS could you please make a video about the polish light bomber the pzl.p23 karaś? PS it was the first plane to bomb Germany in WW2

[@jonathanball8237]

What about a 4000lb Cookie?? 😉🤩

[@WolfeSaber]

The Ju 89 also had swept wings

[@Andrey1997452]

"Hitler wasn't interested in how big the bombers were" Really doesn't sound like him.

[@charlestaylor253]

Hitler wanted mass-produced fleets of medium bombers more than far less numbers of heavy, very long-ranged ones. This doctrine, while very effective tactically, lacked strategic vision. Large fleets of mediums don't stand up very well to an advanced and determined enemy's air defenses, as the Luftwaffe found out to it's dismay in the Battle Of Britain... 😉👍

[@seantu1496]

For this video, guess you don't understand the difference between strategic v.s. tactical, and the many levels inbetween. Of course I had to look at the rest of your video's, and hoping you are smart enough to put the content together for a reason instead of just throwing garbage out there. FWIW, would like to see followup video's, where someone has brought something up for you to think about, and then put out a correction with a link to your original content.

[@Ghatbkk]

Dornier was a German company, not French. The pronunciation of the word should reflect that.

[@michaelhorning6014]

LOOFT-vah-fuh

[@leutnantobvious4340]

well without longae range bomber man killing himself in his monoplane, the war would have looked alot different, at least for england and the soviets.

[@theblackswan2373]

Dungeon Keeper

[@andrewhefner289]

Your area of destruction estimates are just plain silly.

[@janhaanstra2245]

After watching a couple of dozen of your videos, I am beginning to understand why you are talking about the laugh(t)waffe😂. It was a joke, led by a clown. Although quite a few cities, Warshaw, Rotterdam, Coventry etc. might disagree🤔

[@litestuffllc7249]

DId the Nazis need a heavy bomber? They had the Condor, they had Flyingboats - they did not think it worth while because they knew high altitude bombing was extremely innaccurate and ineffective; leaving them the tasked of carpet bombing cities. They were able to get to the gates of Moscow by Dec 1941; but Japan made the collossal error of attacking the USA instead of Siberia. Had it not been for that; the accurate use of tactical bombing would be the winning strategy of the war. After WWII guided weapons and computers changed the game making stand off attacks with missiles much more the norm.

[@johnholt890]

They weren’t that clever as they produced the He 177.

[@peterdoyle3205]

Why use a football mfield as a measure? Around the world football fields vary in size depending on what sort of football you are playing. For people outside of America that measurement means nothing!

[@kidmohair8151]

nothing pertinent to add except for these algo-dieities squiggly things.

[@bamboosa]

LOOFT-va-fa.

[@90lancaster]

If a Lancaster can destroy 2/3rds of the area of Vatican City I have to wonder what could (with conventional weapons) destroy an area equal to that of Vatican City ? A B-29 ? or something else ?

[@Einwetok]

Depends, you can pack a lot of incendiaries in a B29 or B32. If you're going for big penetrators (sub pens) or collapsing the tunnels and buildings (Earthquake 10,000 lbs) you'd need specialist planes. Chemical 500lbs could easily depopulate that area, if you wanted to shop there later. There was a fuel air munition used by Germany early in the war that could have been devastating if scaled up. (if we're talking any ordinance available in that time period).

[@charlestaylor253]

​@@Einwetok Yes, that was the little-known but still-used hyperbaric bomb...

[@allangibson8494]

Incendiaries caused twice the damage of high explosive… The late model Lancaster and B-29 had almost the same maximum bomb load.

[@sergeychmelev5270]

@@allangibson8494 I call a BS. Even if you take Avro Lincoln which is “super-late Lancaster” it literally had half the max B-29 load. The Lincoln with mods could carry one Grand Slam, and B-29 - two. B-29 had MTOW of 135,000lb, while Lincoln - just 82,000lb. Pure physics, no fairy tales.

[@allangibson8494]

@ Bomb load and MTOW are separate questions. The Lancaster was indeed shorter ranged. The maximum bomb load of a B-29 was 20,000lb while the Avro Lancaster regularly carried 22,000lb Grand Slam bombs (that wouldn’t fit in a standard B-29’s bomb bay). The trade off was a significantly shorter range. The B-36 could and did carry the Grand Slam but never used it operationally. The highest altitude Lincolns were the post war turboprop versions which could reach 50,000ft (and were used for the British nuclear test program in Australia to develop ballistic tables).

[@richardchisholm2073]

In 1940-1941 Hitler did start a push for the Amerikabomber when he decided he needed to strike at the US for their impertinent support of Great Britain. Had the development of heavy bombers continued with improving the Ju 89, they may have successfully built a transatlantic aircraft. Again, Hitler was an Artillery Corporal with a ground combat mentality. He personally knew what weapons were needed and how to deploy them and the army to win the war. He never really had a concept of the need for or the deployment of heavy bombers until his need to keep Americans out of the European conflict. Like you brought up in this video, fuel and raw materials were limited. Large numbers of smaller aircraft were more important to him. It allowed him to have more tanks and artillery coming out of existing infrastructure. His air Generals, not unlike his ground Generals and Navy Admirals were merely advisors , expected to do his bidding after he conceived the Victory Plan.

[@robertmosher7418]

He was a runner, a messenger. It has been reported that he was brave and carried many dispatches under fire. However, being a dispatch runner in WWI hardly made him any sort of expert in anything more than hauling ass across broken ground on foot while being bombarded and shot at. He was never in a maneuver unit or artillery unit or cavalry unit. Why would anyone think thalt

[@stephenhall3515]

Get a different narrator who can speak proper English.

[@bullettube9863]

Germany's production of bombers is pitiful when you compare them to the American production of bombers. During WW2 America built 12,500 B-17s and 18,000 B-24s. Yes big bombers are expensive which is why America only built 3,970 B-29s before building 384 of it's successor the B-36 which was then replaced by 744 of the B-52s. Bigger bombers can carry more powerful weapons so you don't need as many of them. Based on all the Mistakes Goering and Hitler made I'm surprised someone hasn't divulged that they were secretly working for the allies!

[@eddhardy1054]

I don't know if this is true or not but I read somewhere that the British government planned to assassinate H*tler but decided against it because they were worried the Germans might replace him with someone competent. To be fair the US armament factories did have a slight advantage over their German counterparts in that they weren't being bombed flat almost constantly by the Allies.

[@WimsicleStranger]

8:32- AI generated old timey photo. Look at the letters, their faces, and the most obvious of all- how their bodies are facing the opposite direction that their feet are lol

[@MarkCraig-x1z]

It's pronounced "Veber" in German. Germans can't pronounce w as it comes out as a V.

[@chuck2998]

Battle network 5 IS the best. Double Soul(search soul solos, idc), the Dark Mega edginess. Endgame is preddygud