Did the Soviets do any Strategic Bombing? - #OOTF #shorts

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[WorldWarTwo]

This question comes from Valdagast under our video about Allied Bombers in 1945. Thanks for the question!

[NotraceOfRay]

As a German I'm astonished by your pronunciation. Most people don't even try.
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[GrimSoldat]

To my understanding Soviet air doctrine focused mainly on CAS (close air support) but did retain a level of air superiority with fighters, but there was less focus on the air war on the Eastern Front on both sides compared to the Western and Mediterreanean, so I think the opportunity simply was not there. Whereas you had the Battle of Britain and so on. I could be totally wrong though.

[okay]

What’s also interesting, which you should also cover, is that USAF B-17s used soviet airfields to bomb Germany and were escorted by YAK-3s

[blitz]

Your german pronunciation was flawless

[iLikeCkieDough]

That’s crazy that they dropped 6, 700 tons over the entire war! The USAAF dropped almost 1, 700 tons in one single bombing raid on Japan

[WalletWorrier]

6, 700 tonnes is way less than I expected. Western raids would drop over 1, 000 tonnes each

[JamesTobiasStewart]

That is interesting to know. I've been watching the LordHardThrasher bomber war videos and this is one of the details that adds to my mental picture of the whole campaign.

[flyingbicycles]

The Soviet’s main air force advantage was their particularly good dive bomber. The Ilyushin Il2 and il10 were, together, the most produced military aircraft in history. They were dubbed “flying tanks” because of their heavy armor, but dive bombing enemy troops and fortifications is a very low-yield endeavor so they didn’t rack up huge tonnage numbers. In fact, they had so much armor that they only had enough weight left for single small bombs, 50-100kg. However, Stalin remarked that these bombers were as useful to the red army as air and bread.

[CJinsoo]

Soviet's had higher priorities for their air force.

[off]

Mostly frontline bombers at the time

The PE-3 was still technically a frontline bomber

[ProjectThunderclaw]

I assume this is the conventional terminology so I don't want to put this solely at your feet but man, there really is something tremendously disturbing about how the exact same thing is "terror bombing" when the bad guys are doing it, but it magically transforms into "strategic bombing" when the good guys are doing it.

[hannuback]

It wasn't just Helsinki that was bombed in Finland. The weirdest place I've seen a bomb crater was on the island of Ernholm in the finnish archipelago. It's a very scarcely inhabited island and as I understood, it was mostly used for pastures at the time. There's a tall, rocky hill there and the bomb hit the rock making a maybe meter wide crater that still has gravel in it. The soviets made a bombing run towards Turku and it is suggested that the soviet plane had bombs left over and they got rid of the payload in the archipelago. There's still bomb marks in Turku, like in the wall of the post office building.

[gauravkanwasi]

The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty, in 1939. While the pact included a secret protocol dividing Eastern Europe into Soviet and German spheres of influence, the USSR did supply Germany with resources, such as oil and grain, until Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Similarly, the United States sold resources, like oil and scrap metal, to Germany until December 1941, when Germany declared war on the US following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Maybe you should learn the meaning of Allies in the first place.

[wongarnold]

They are more focused on CAS and medium bombers than strategic bombing.

[Don_Brazo]

Why does the map in the background have kaliningrad as water 😭

[overlord]

My grandfather was a part of the 1941 Berlin air raids. He was a ground mechanic for the bomber squad.

[aimway]

The Soviets also flew missions against the Romanian oil fields in 1941 before the Germans captured Crimea.

[fidelismiles]

I was wondering about that while gazing at the Yer-2 bombers in War Thunder. There were around 400 hundreds of these and were used on those raids on Berlin but throughout 1941-42 they suffered heavy losses and the Soviets prioritized production of IL-2s, they returned to production with some upgrades in 1944 and kept flying until the end of the war, they were replaced by the Tu-4.

[lovepeace]

They had way more things to work on during WW2, the CAS was needed, fighters were needed, tactical bombing was needed, without constant supply of those, frontlines would surely fall + germans had WAY more resources defending skies in the east than in the west, so there's that.
USSR produced insane amounts of IL-2 (like 36k is i remember correctly), those were proven as good ground pounders and played a huge role in winning the war on the ground.