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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
uhmm I dunno, personally I would have avoided the invasion by sea initially, I would have used Fallschirmjaeger units with gliders and Me321s to transport troops and tanks. They could have poured in thousands of men in a day, establishing bridgeheads and carried on the invasion.
It would still have been necessary to gain air superiority though, and concentrate attacks on RAF bases and aircraft factories.
But before all this, the introduction of external fuel tanks for the fighters would have been of paramount importance.
So, the technological needs were:
1) droptanks for the Luftwaffe
2) development of gliders and glider systems
strategy:
1) converge bombers on airfields and aircraft factories
2) establish air superiority
3) arrange massive para-drops
4) capture airfields and/or prepare improvised land strips
5) combined attacks of bombers and u-boote towards the RN
6) mine channel
7) ask for support from the Italian Navy
all in all it would have been too much of a logistic strain and effort in 1940/41, but still feasible, had they decided to avoid the invasion of Russia.
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The 321 glider didn't make its first flight til Feb 1941 so would be hard for them to be used in Sept 1940.
The 7th Flieger Division and the German 22nd Air Landing Division had taken losses during the preceding campaign battle of France), and were now understrength.
Do you know how much supplies are required by a Division when in combat? I don't think so.
The Channel was already mined by the Germans and the British.