I have to disagree with your assesment of the Stuka. It performed raids on convoys in the channel quite effectivly and would probably be on par in performance with the Japanese Val or the American dauntless.
The German evaluation of the Stuka for its suitability to be a carrier craft gave it glowing recomendations. Its undercarage was strong, It carried a suitable bomb load and had the required range. Its only real short coming would be the lack of folding wings.
Now the 109T that would have been scary.
Secondly aircraft are a far larger threat to a convoy than a submarine ever could be in WWII. Torpedo planes would have a hayday with merchants and it aint like they could run away even if they did see them coming!
Not to say that it should replace the U-boat arm, Just saying that if they could effectivly get a carrier around England and out to see, A daunting task in its own right that it would have and could have been an effective convoy destroyer that im sure would have every available ship and Sub in the Royal navy looking for her to sink cause she would have been a greater threat than the Bizmark!
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