Great bombers of ww2

Let’s start with the best

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>best
cough

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Second best for me desu

Stuka

>That siren

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The dauntless

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You will never dodge flak at several hundred feet to skip a bomb into a dam. Why even live?

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Msq. Is a twin engine fighter you idiot

And a night fighter
And a tactical bomber
And a recon plane
And....

It's so sad Soviets focused on frontline bombers and never really finished Pe-8, it had potential to easily outperform B-17.

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Fun fact, the B-29 was the most expensive weapons development program of the Second World War, surpassing even the Manhattan Project.

Lol, really? Imagine their butthurt about this buddy right here then.

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Yeah, between the engines and being (I think) the first pressurized combat aircraft, it was a huge investment. The Soviets acquisition of that one B-29 probably shifted their entire aviation industry forward by a decade.

Originally a fast bomber - it was designed as just a way for chair and furniture factories to be used in the war effort, so it's size is all based around what a chair factory can handle in terms of component parts, all wood and glue based joins etc... Then they stuck two enemic engines on it that weren't much use on any other planes but which they had in supply. No defensive armaments (too heavy), just a cockpit, bomb bay and not much else.

Then they flew it in its test run, it took off easily enough, then as they got altitude they met up with their spitfire observer plane, and put the throttle to maximum... and it proceeded to leave the spitfire far behind.

Eventually it was converted into a nightfight/heavy fighter to replace the Beaufighter, but to begin with it had one role: fly into germany, drop it's payload, fly out and be too fast to be stopped. RAF fighter doctrine tended to favour single engine aircraft in fighter roles entirely, with the Whirlwind being the only originally intended "heavy fighter" the RAF fielded, and even then only until Spitfires started to be mounted with 20mm cannons (the problem the whirlwind was supposed to solve) and as radar become common place on nightfighters, the whirlwind was ironically now too small so got replaced by bomber conversions.

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tell that to the pilots who had to be ripped just to keep her flying straight

t. Fly-by-wire soiboi

it's got more to do with the wing design making it a glorified glider with engines, which meant you were constantly fighting against the wing while flying it

You just gotta lift weights so your arms can control the lift of the B-24.

>ywn fly in a flying boat
end me

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It could fly to Berlin and back and drop 4000 lbs of bombs.

Which is more than the b17 could do.

it did not have 2000km range with 4000lbs of bombs. The B-17 always flew at less than capacity just because it would fly further carrying less

>In October 1943 it was decided that all B Mk IVs and all B Mk IXs then in service would be converted to carry the 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) "Cookie", and all B Mk IXs built after that date were designed to allow them to be converted to carry the weapon.[155] The B Mk IX had a maximum speed of 408 mph (657 km/h), an economical cruise speed of 295 mph (475 km/h) at 20,000 ft, and 350 mph (560 km/h) at 30,000 ft,[140] ceiling of 36,000 ft (11,000 m), a range of 2,450 nmi (4,540 km), and a climb rate of 2,850 feet per minute (869 m).

>Each aircraft carried two 50-gallon drop tanks and a 4,000-lb bomb. Their crews dubbed these missions the ´Berlin Express`.

That does not specify what payload it carried when doing such a range/ceiling/speed. Just that it was modified to carry a cookie-sized payload.

But there are reports of Mossies dropping cookies on Berlin, which is what? 1700 km?

Soviets had 4 B-29 airframes interned, not just one.

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They copied down to the Boeing label on the yoke.

They also copied an old bullet hole in the air frame

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Yea no. The 3 airframes interned were: 42-6256 (Ramp Tramp), 42-6365 (General H. H. Arnold Special), and 42-6358 (Ding How). Ramp Tramp would remain airworthy, Ding How would serve as a ground reference, and the General H. H. Arnold Special was disassembled by Tupolev. There was a 4th airframe, but it crashed in Soviet territory and not airworthy.

The story of how the crews "escaped" was rather amusing.

>best
That's a funny looking B-25
TBM is better.
>inb4 torpedo bomber
>BOMBER

*and was not airworthy. I also found the serial number of the 4th airframe: 42-93829 (Cait Paomat II)

I consider the DC-3 to be the greatest aircraft in ww2.
The Soviets happened to make a bomber version.

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With Bombay doors.

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probably the ugliest plane to emerge from the interwar period

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One of my favorites. Picturing them diving on Japanese carriers at Coral Sea and Midway.

The Avenger was very good too. Really, I like all the US Naval aircraft of WW2 but since this a thread for bombers then the Dauntless, Avenger, Helldiver deserve recognition. I can give a little props even to the Devastator since their crews were brave to be taking that thing into attack runs where the torpedo they dropped may not even work.

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