Holy hell. There is a lot of material here I did not know.

I am not qualified to speak on much of this.

However, the implications of the Fritz-X and HS 293 are within my knowledge base. The home-on-radar system is, IMHO, quite do-able. There will be problems with the very primitive bang-bang flight controls of these missles in this mode, and Fritz-X (being AP) probably will not go off if it misses and hits the sea, but the HS 293 will do so, enlarging its effective diameter. Basically, it can cause mining damage from a near-miss.

Oh, this also means it can also use home-on-jammer.

This not makes mixed passive-active tactics possible. The first wave fires HS-293, the convoy either turns its radars off or keeps them on and jams as well. (This is the active or 'brass band' defence. Gulp. Serious pucker factor stuff.)

The second wave uses Fritz-X, with time on target the same to roll back the defences. If they coordinate this well, God help the convoy.

The answer is obvious, but I do not think the Allies can do it in time. They have to start a guided SAM program.


NAXOS able to detect ASV. Yes. That is a serious change and will reduce KM SS losses.

Kammhuber will wet himself with joy.

SHANE - Tom Phillips' ruinously catastrophic blunder just gave the high-altitude approach of BC something of a boost.... Their losses to LW nightfighters are going to go thru the roof. This is bad.

It is gradually dawning on me that the loss of PoW in the circumstances she was lost may just be the single most important event of FFO.

Also, Jacques. Jeffrey Jukes was convinced that the Soviets were reading ENIGMA very readily, and that it was this which vastly assisted operations such as their spoiling barrages at Kursk that so deracinated the German attacks, and their planning of the Vistula-Oder offensive.

You may have to factor into Soviet actions much less pre-knowledge of Wehrmacht operational weaknesses. Surely this will slow the Soviet advance by a significant amount?

Cheers: Mark