Air fleets & ships too powerful

[Lars]

Originally posted by Stalin's Organist:

What nonsense! It's only 20% of what it took to mount a proper defence - any attacking force would notice the difference immediately.

That 5000 tons has to cover everything - recce, training, ferry flights, bombing attacks.

Er, no it didn't. Which was my point.

And the attacking force did notice the difference.

[Guest Mike]

Errr.........yes it did.

They could make it cover non-combat activities by cutting back on those non-combat activities, resulting in much worse replacements, etc, but accounting for those non-combat activities resulted in even less combat power - either right away, or a little way down the line when there were less and/or less competent replacements.

That's what it meant to attack the oil - it wasa critical industry that neutered the LW - and the rest of the Wheremacht in general, regardless of how many aeroplanes they could make.

And yes the attacking force did notice - there was a lack of a LW because....ta daaa....there was a lack of fuel for them to fly with!