Why didn't germans raid britain with paratroopers?

Why didn't germans raid britain with paratroopers?

just a thought but why didn't even a force of a few hundred or even couple thousand not be sent to london to disrupt government departments and possibly kill/capture churchill ?

in 1941 15,000 paratroopers were used in crete, surely a few thousand in london could have captured alot until they ran out of bullets.

sure its suicide or likely to lose all soldiers to capture but it could achieve alot

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That dumb.

>sure its suicide or likely to lose all soldiers to capture but it could achieve alot

if its suicide they wouldnt achieve anything.

You need to have air superiority to have paratroopers be effective or else all their planes would get shot down before they even drop.

this entire scenario is retarded

They couldn't even raid Crete properly.

They couldn't even win air superiority over Britain. What makes you think they can send a massive force of planes to paradrop soldiers without getting completely obliterated for a single man can drop off the plane.

you imply that you would send them over without an escort or a distraction beforehand.

This is of course during the battle of britain rather than after

You can hardly conduct any operation, let alone an island invasion without control of the airspace.

How do you supply them without air superiority?

>why didnt the germans
>germany would have won if
>if only they had not

nice thread

Why didn't the Germans just win the war?

So, first off, outside a brief window in the early summer of 1940, the Germans don't even have an air advantage in southern Britian, which means your slow, lumbering JU-52s are going to be shot down in droves by the RAF.

Then, whatever survivors manage to drop down somewhere, and it probably won't be on target because of the RAF running interference, will be hastily beaten up by the large number of troops that the British kept in England itself.

They won't be able to get anywhere near Parliament, and you've thrown away a lot of expensive transport planes and well trained troops to cause a minor inconvenience at best to the British.

AIR SUPERIORITY user, ITS LIKE MILITARY STRAT 101.

>i don't like this so lets not discuss it

nice post

because you don't send them on their own?

like i said before this could have been done in 1940.

>will be hastily beaten up by the large number of troops that the British kept in England itself.
that would be true if all of them soldiers were in london, they weren't all that the paratroopers would face would be local police, MPs and other auxillary staff, they would also at least have a few hours before any major response in which time they would have done something even if it were just blowing up churchills HQ
read the OP again

>read the OP again
no.
one time was more then enough, i couldnt handle the stupidity and cluelessness a second time

How would you distract the RAF so hard that they give the Germans an opportunity to perform a massive airborne assault?

>because you don't send them on their own?
And who could reinforce them?

>like i said before this could have been done in 1940.
You mean, when the Heer was recovering from its exertions in France and had done a grand total of 0 amphibious training, not to mention half of the Kriegsmarine was under repair of some sort after the invasion of Norway?

>that would be true if all of them soldiers were in london, they weren't all that the paratroopers would face would be local police, MPs and other auxillary staff,
Wrong.
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I'm counting 6 divisions either in or immediately around London. That outnumbers the entire 1940 paratrooper force by about 8:1 IF they all land there, which they won't.


Your entire premise is retarded from first to last.

alright i'll do it for you then

>surely a few thousand in london could have captured alot until they ran out of bullets.

>And who could reinforce them?
the escort or other fighters in the luftwaffe

>You mean, when the Heer was recovering from its exertions in France and had done a grand total of 0 amphibious training, not to mention half of the Kriegsmarine was under repair of some sort after the invasion of Norway?
what has this got to do with anything? im not on about sea lion

>I'm counting 6 divisions either in or immediately around London. That outnumbers the entire 1940 paratrooper force by about 8:1 IF they all land there, which they won't.

and? like i said theses soldiers wouldn't be put to much use until the paratroopers did their job of causing chaos and sabotage

>Your entire premise is retarded from first to last.
like market garden?

user IRL is not like videogames

in what are you referring to?

>and? like i said theses soldiers wouldn't be put to much use until the paratroopers did their job of causing chaos and sabotage

wtf are you smoking mate? These troops just ignore the German paratroopers they know are coming?

How would the Germans manage to do a parachute landing without the British retaliating in any shape or form? You think they wouldn't be informed the Germans are sending transport planes and react accordingly?
>Received info from the RAF that they are sending in Ju 52 transport planes, what do we do, Nigel?
>Chill, lad, they're probably gonna drop supply boxes

>the escort or other fighters in the luftwaffe
That's not reinforcing landing paratroopers.

>what has this got to do with anything? im not on about sea lion
Well, if you want to reinforce your landing paratroopers, you need to get men over somehow. There aren't any bridges, and it's too far to swim, so if you want to get more men over to your "reinforcements", you will need the navy.


>and?
Your men will be slaughtered and slaughtered quickly.

>like i said theses soldiers wouldn't be put to much use until the paratroopers did their job of causing chaos and sabotage
How can they do that before they land? And how can they do anything once they land and start getting attacked at overwhelming odds?

>like market garden?
This is orders of magnitude stupider than Market-Garden

You've been watching The Eagle Has Landed too much.

> These troops just ignore the German paratroopers they know are coming?

pretty much, in the same way alot of things were ignored due to the intel being "too crazy to be true"

the point is that by the time the army turns up to town the germans will have already have done their objectives or at least penetrated government buildings

there are no reinforcements, this isn't an invasion more of a large commando raid

>and start getting attacked at overwhelming odds?
surrender?

So in other words, for your plan to be feasible, the British somehow have to completely ignore all signs of a German airborne assault?

>there are no reinforcements, this isn't an invasion more of a large commando raid
So you're throwing the better part of your only paratrooper division away so you can do a glorified commando raid. You will cause no damage that won't be cheaply repaired in a week at most, and give the British an enormous propaganda coup, as they can simultaneously say that you attempted to attack them at their heart, and that they effortlessly repelled it.

The plan is retarded. You are also retarded for advocating it.

>the government can be replaced in a week

They're not going to destroy the government. They're not even going to reach the government. They're going to have half of them shot down en route, the other half of them making forced drops wherever they can touch tdirt, and the few that make it into the city are going to be almost immediately slaughtered by the troops a few hundred feet in front of them.

You should seriously consider suicide. As a eugenics measure.

Are you the same guy who claimed that Germans could have beaten Soviets by conducting bombings of their Ural railroads? I await more entertainment form you if that is so.

I was gonna say that this plan is so stupid Hitler probably would've done it, but I don't think even Hitler was this retarded.

The answer to questions like this is always that if it would've worked, they would've done it.

Because Real Life isn't Hearts of Iron IV you fucking autist. You don't just send thousands of paratroopers to their death or capture on the hope that they can cause some damage.