Winter 40'/41' is when the Luftwaffe generals discovered their achiles heel. Lack of strategic aircraft. The writing was on the wall. Any production of long range bombers at this stage would have been a waste of resources. Had Germany forseen that a round the clock bombing campaign was about to be unleashed in the next year or two, I believe they could have been better prepared using aircraft already at hand proven for defense or speeding up production of newer designs specifically for the defense. I doubt this would have improved their fuel situation and would have in later years cut back operations anyway regardless of when they changed their tactics. If we look at the Russians, they did not seem to focus on long range bombing. Fighers and ground attack aircraft seemed to be the mainstay. Germany should have done the same with a higher ratio of figher production.

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