Re: Effect of Graf Zeppelin if Operational?

On Oct 9, 3:06 pm, Brad Meyer <bradm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:07:21 -0700, AlfredMontestruc

<montest...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Japan does a technology transfer in exchange for German technology in
other areas?

What are they going to transfer?

Proven Aircraft Carrier Design technology and proven Aircraft Carrier
Operational proceedures. Duh!!



They would be transfering very poor
tech info, because they had very poor deck cycles, DC systems and a/c.

As compaired to the Germans who chould not do it at all????





In this case German pilots trained by IJN Naval aviation and flying
licensed Zeros, Vals, and Kates.

Vals and Kates were death traps.


Matter of opinion.



Zero's probably wouldn't have faired
much better. "Inferior" US Wildcats fought them with a 1:1 kill ratio.

That is only true if you if you count the actions after Midway, when
the vast majority of Japan's elite naval fighter pilot corp was dead.

Those fighter pilots died when their carriers were bombed with them on
the carriers, not in air actions.



I shouldn't think they would do very well against Spits and
Hurricanes.

As history and others on this thread have pointed out that is not the
case in real life in our time line in the far east. More the reverse
in that Japanese piloted Zeros had high kill ratios against RAF and
RAAF units flying Hurricanes and Spits.


Germany builds the GZ but IJN naval officers dictate hanger and flight
deck design and suchlike.

Then they end up with a poorly designed ship to boot. Sho and Zui,
probably the best of the lot, were about 5000 ton larger then
Enterprise and Yorktown, but operated fewer a/c.

But they worked and were working aircraft carriers, which is more than
the Germans ever had. I am under the impression that the IJN carrier
designs you are talking about are all prewar and you are compairing
them to mid to late war US designs. That is not a reasonable
compairson.


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