What was the WORST plane to be used in WW2?

Question

The Fairey Battle gets my vote. Suicide machine with a very naff name.

Answer 1

I admit I don't know the answer to the question, but you might like to know that the Commonwealth Boomerang was the only type of allied fighter in front line service not to shoot down a single enemy aircraft in the entire war.

I reccomend any book on aviation history by Bill Gunston. He's written extensively on WW2 aircraft.

Answer 2

Well, the Russian Polikarpov monoplane was seriously out-dated at the start of the war.
The Brits had a Hurricane mounted with an electric turret that couldn't fire straight ahead or straight back and became a sitting duck once the Germans realized it WASN'T a Hurricane.
The Germans had a rocket plane that notoriously melted its pilots with its hydrozene fuel (whee!).
The Americans had a jet fighter that was slower than its prop planes.
There were lots and lots of experimental and one-off prototypes and failed combat planes ... but that's because the technology was racing ahead so fast, and the war gave everyone with a drawing board a chance to design aircraft. Some really neat stuff came out, but also some real garbage aircraft.

Answer 3

properly the weapon that led to the most damage became no dought the atom bomb, The u.s. dropped 2 on Japan (fat guy, and little boy) cities of Hiroshima and Nagaskiski The led to the inability of life of 250000 now to not metion poisoninging the floor for some hundred years. yet what do i imagine became a fairly frighting weapon is likewise Nazi Germany MG42. The weapohorrifyingrifing, and respectbad assbadass. The weapon had a enhance replacing mechism which cycled the bullets with rollers giving it a quantity of fireplace that no different weapon can make(1500rpm!!! , imagine the nearest became a russian smg that shot 900 rpm). Having this cost of fireplace made one distict sound, nicked call Hitlers buzzsaw, It sound very resembling a buzzsaw and this sound became perplexing for troops to get use to because they could basically listen on sounoftenofften teffified them, It became extremly accruate and on D-day they were set in Bunkers with a pod to cause them to even more desirable precise. The troops that went on Omaha sea coast are the bravest and characteristic all my note of;) also The Tiger a million and a pair of were unstoppable. The tiger on had 4in of frontal armor and its basically weak spot became its underbelly. the quite tank became risky yet what made it so deadly became with no dought its 88mm gun. The Gun became like a sniper rife and hit enemy tanks from some estimate a mile an excellent distance of two.5 miles away. Its might want to perice fairly a lot any armor from and tank. The German tank that became even more desirable frighting became the German tiger 2. This tank armor became invicable at the same time as it got here to armor. It had 7 INCHS of armor and SLOPE so tank rounds might want to by no skill penertrate it and had the 88mm to. those tanks even with the undeniable fact that were produce in very small numbers (tiger a million:1400)(tigerll:500) and were weak to failers yet there armor and arment were each guess of the international frighting.

Answer 4

Any plane used by the German Military.

Even though the Meserschmidt was the first turbine powered and would have been bad if it would have finished development earlier in the war.

Enola Gay? Are you an idiot? That plane helped end the war with Japan. As in the words of Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide about dropping the A-bomb "Hell yes, drop that f***er twice."

Answer 5

Bristol Blenheim was pretty poor it took its inspiration from ww1 and was a kind of fighter with a rear gunner. A few kills were made by this aircraft when the Germans mistook it for a hurricane and approached it from behind, but they soon learned the difference. This plane was to slow to be used as a fighter so it was almost pointless.

Answer 6

I'd have to say the Messerschmitt Me163 Komet. It was about as deadly to its own crew as to Allied bombers. The fuel - a combination of hydrogen peroxide, hydrazine, and methanol - was a deadly poison. Several of the planes exploded, and a lot of them were wrecked when landing.

And that wasn't the end of their problems. They were built to fly up to 40,000 feet but didn't have a pressurized cockpit. The plan was to have it fly past Allied bombers at 550 mph, but its slow firing cannons meant that the pilots often were not able to hit any planes - and since the rocket engine had a short burn time, they often only got one pass.

Answer 7

The Blackburn B-26 Botha has to be the worst WWII aircraft. It was grossly underpowered and had major safety issues. It was only operational for five months, but was used as a trainer until 1944.

Answer 8

The CG4A plywood gliders we used to help win the war.

Answer 9

All the ones that crashed obviously weren't that good?

Answer 10

Enola Gay