Arny Krueger wrote:

One point - this Nazi development (never a practical tool of war) was a
fighter not a bomber. Even in more modern times developing a stealth bomber
was far more difficult and there was a delay of many years between the
first stealth fighter and the first stealth bomber.


How big a bomber and how unpractical a tool of war is a fighter sized
airplane that can't be seen until you are 20 miles off the coast and it's
carrying an atomic bomb?

The distance from the coast to London is 92 miles so it needs to go 112
miles to drop the bomb directly on London. If it was travelling 100 mph,
that would take enough time for it to be noticed and if a fighter got lucky,
it would be shot down visually.

According to the Wikipedia page its top speed was 977 kmh, so it could
go from first contact to ground zero in 11 minutes. Not a lot of time to
find and stop it.

The cargo load of the airplane was about 2000 pounds, about 1/5 of the size
of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki (fat man and little boy) bombs, but that does
not mean that someone could of built an atomic bomb that would fit the weight
critera if one did not care to survive the construction of the bomb and the
flight.

Geoff.

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