The Grand Duchy Of Nova Capile wrote:Wysten wrote:Air Supremacy isn't something you "get" it's more like you have to hold. Besides at the time of the proposed landing only two squads in the whole of the Luft were trained in hitting ships. The problem is that the German industry pre-Speer, for a lack of a better term, was a fucking shitshow and could no where near produce the planes needed to maintain AS above the Isles not to mention the valuable fuel being wasted when it can instead go to the Panzer divisions.
Air supremacy only needed to be maintained for a short window of time to allow German troops to land on the island. The British Army was in no position to defeat a German invasion once they got boots on the ground.
Boy, it sure would be weird if there were the equivalent of 11 full strength infantry divisions in the UK during June 1940, post-Battle of France, and a couple hundred tanks, not to mention less conventional anti-invasion preparations.
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It climbs to 16 divisions by the way, come September. There's also 290 million rounds of .303 ammo ready for use in June 1940, climbing to over 400 million in August.