To provide work for the new factories and to ensure that the newly trained air crews had something to fly, all three were pressed into immediate production. But it was clear that none of them was really a weapon of strategic air war. They lacked payload and speed. Furthermore, without protection it was unclear how they could break through enemy fighter defences. Despite its success, therefore, in building up production capacity, it was clear already in 1936 that the Luftwaffe needed to develop at least one more generation of aircraft and engines before it could become a truly effective
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