Love 'em all. Would like some bombers to join the alternative world...
But if you feel like coming up with some good gap fillers that would help alternate history...
If Gen Wever survived, who knows if some truly interesting 4-engine bombers would have had a longer life? In the mid-30s there was a German request for a long-range bomber
Dornier Do-19
* V1 was unarmed (used as a transport in the Polish campaign)
* V2 would have planned armament of
-- 1x 20mm MGFF in dorsal turret
-- 1x 20mm MGFF in ventral turret
-- 1x MG15 in nose (bombardier operated)
-- 1x MG15 in open tail position
-- 1600Kg bombload (16xSC100s or 32xSC50s)
Junkers Ju-89
* Same armament as Do-19
* Canibalized to develop Ju-90
Adm Lahs to Milch in 1942: "In 1936, Junkers and Dornier had both built prototypes of heavy bombers. With systematic progressive development, they would have been today, six years later, superior to all American and British long-range bombers." Of course, Gen Wever died in an He-70 take off accident, and Goering did not want to continue with the Ural Bomber project anyway... Spawned is the He-177 monstrosity (one of my favorite planes) with a ridiculous dive-bombing requirement.
Things to think about...
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