Thread:Sambobsung/@comment-1715389-20130630043655/@comment-1715389-20130701002845

The H-45 might have been nigh-unstoppable if it were built...except considering a few things:

1) it would have been ENORMOUS, twice as long as the Empire State Building is tall.  That racks up expenses quick, and would mean only one could be built if any;  Germany didn't have the resources for that kind of project.

2) Even if they did, it would've been impossible to conceal from the air; chances are the RAF would've sent some Lancasters carrying everything from Thermite Bombs to Tallboys and Grandslams.  Also consider that at the same time the US was building and testing the B-36 Peacekeeper, which was designed to carry the same bombs as the Lancaster FROM THE UNITED STATES.

3) Assuming it somehow WASN'T destroyed in construction, the H-45's sheer size would have made MOVING it a feat in and of itself.  The top speed of that thing would've been LAUGHABLY slow, and fuel efficiency nonexisistent with a traditional fossil-fueled powerplant.  Granted, while Germany failed to build a nuclear bomb, they DID bsuccessfully build and test an experimental reactor, opening th epossibility of nuclear propulsion, but still, given how little we knew of nuclear safety at the time, it was highly probably that H-45 would've blown itself up just trying to start up the engines.

4) If they somehow defied the odds and managed to get that thing to work, the Allied Forces would have devoted EVERYTHING in their arsenals to destroy it, from torpedos to nuclear bombs; it would probably be destroyed (or at least disabled either by mechanical damage or the deaths of too much of the crew to operate it) before it could do any serious damage.