Why didn't Hitler invade UK?
Why wasn't Hitler a cute hamster?
British air and sea superiority
>>1228251
Many reasons, the most obvious being that it basically wasn't possible without massive casualties and years of fighting. The Allies knew this when planning the invasion of Japan, you try to invade an island belonging to a great power and you're going to have a bad time.
Even though the situation in mainland Europe was grim, the Royal Navy still very much controlled the sea, the British fleet was ridiculously large. The Nazis were reduced to torpedoing merchant vessels and the odd battleship to try to starve the island.
The plan was to gain air superiority in the Battle of Britain but they failed. Even if they managed to smash an opening through the fleet and land troops on the island, what happens then? How do you supply them? How does your first landing wave survive against the homeland defence force and a civilian population that will do everything in their power to shit up your day?
The plan was to starve the population into revolt which never happened because Britain was fully invested in total war and instensive farming/rationing. Not to mention the support from America and the various shipments from other allies and colonies. They also hoped to demoralize the population through terror bombing which didn't work either.
I hate the "keep calm and carry on" meme but that was basically the attitude at the time. Everyone carried on as normal because they weren't thinking about "if" they win, they thought about "when" they win.
As I mentioned above, the exact thing happened with Japan. Their fleet was basically annihilated by the Allies but the invasion was going to be horrific for everyone involved which is why the bomb was absolutely necessary.
>>1228310
This. But also because Hitler sincerely believed two Anglo-Saxon peoples would never need to war with each other. He had the chance to build up Germany's navy (specifically their U-Boats) since 1933. But ultimately he thought it was unnecessary getting a head-start because Germany's true enemies (France and USSR) only need the army and airforce to be dealt with. He also thought Britain would sue for peace after the fall of France, and when they didn't basically tried to ignore Britain when it also became clear that a successful invasion would be unrealistic. I think it was Vyacheslav Molotov who said, when trying to be convinced that Britain would surrender soon when he was visiting Berlin, "then whose bombs are falling on us now?"
Eventually their denial of Britain's importance would convince Hitler that once the USSR fell, Britain would then surrender. The high command basically convinced themselves that beginning the "inevitable" war on the eastern front and wining it would be easier than ending a war against Britain, the supposedly "doomed" opponent who wouldn't recognize when the game was up.
>>1228354
He didn't even think France would attack him and was taken by suprise when they and britian declared war on him
Your Mother's fat ass most likely.
>>1228251
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Naval and air superiority along with Churchill making a point that surrender of the homeland was absolutely not an option.
>>1228371
Yes, he didn't believe that Britain and France would actually sack-up and "defend" Poland. But his insane ramblings his whole life before the war regularly depict France as the embodiment of decadent modernity and race-mixing tolerance. He did indeed believe that France needed to be removed if German dominance over the continent was to succeed, and many Germans did want revenge against the country that insisted on punishing Germany as harshly as possible in the Versailles treaty.
>>1228299
I thought by 1940-ish the Luftwaffe outnumbered the Royal Airforce by about 1000.
Apologies if I'm wrong. I'm pretty new here.
>>1230904
Not him, but no, what they had more of (at the beginning) was single engined fighters, and even then, only about 5-600 difference.
The British built their air doctrine and air forces on a WW1ish level of theory and assuming that no huge technological breakthroughs would exist: that bombers would almost always get through and weren't that vulnerable to fighters, and as such the way you win an air war was to build lots and lots of bombers, bomb first, and bomb harder.
A lot of those assumptions turned out wrong, the development of radar (making interceptions much easier) and the divergence of fighters and bombers into far more specialized roles, with fighters now having almost a 150 kph speed advantage over bombers instead of around 50ish (and thus making the bombers far more vulnerable) meant that the British force allocation was very badly out of sync with what they needed and a lot of the RAF was ineffective, but at the start of the war, the RAF had over twice as many planes overall as the Luftwaffe, just not the sorts that were too useful in the Battle of Britain. (Also, they had worse maintenance staffs and general readiness. Despite having far more planes, they often had fewer planes operational and ready to sortie at a given moment than the Germans did)
>>1231142
radar, i think you mean Carrots
>>1232008
But night bombing itself was an ad-hoc measure. Bomber Command was firmly convinced up until the end of 1940 that bombers, flying in good formation, could protect themselves from fighters unescorted in the daylight.
Night vision (or navigation, or anything else) wasn't really thought to be important for the simple reason that a lot of the earliest raids were carried out in the day, and it was only their disastrous results that led to them switching over to night bombing.
