"The Blue Max" wrote in message
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"Gordon McLaughlin" wrote in message
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To judge from the types of aircraft developed for the Graf Zeppelin, the
catapults should have been able to launch a V1 unless it weighed much
more
than, say, a Ju87.

That's what I figure, as long as there's no compelling other reason (like
setting up the compass, for instance).

My reason for asking was that I'm programming an old PC wargame to
simulate
a Doolittle raid on New York in about 1943-4 by a pair of German CVs. The
assumptions are that the Commonwealth and USSR have capitulated in
succession, the IJN is in need of a diversion, and the two German CVs,
which
can't fight a US CV, are instead launching the most irritating raid
possible
that's sure to force the USN to pull carriers out of the Pacific.


If the commonwealth has capitulated why arent you launching attacks
from Canada ?

Assuming they can do 25 to 30 knots for 10 hours or so and the V-1s can
fly
about 250 miles, they could presumably approach during daylight, launch at
dusk, and retreat, thus ensuring that they're out of range of effective
land-based air throughout.

Hardly. Virtually any land based twin or 4 engined bombers could
reach them with escort from P-38's. The catalina's would pick them
up a long way out.

All they have to worry about is submarines, so I
figure one carries a normal air group and the other the V-1s. Ideally, if
a
V-1 could be fired without reconfiguring the whole flight deck, they both
would. I'd imagine you could flat-pack a V-1 quite small.


Why dont they have to wonder about the US Atlantic fleet ?

Keith