[hinckley buzzard]

The Lancaster was lightly armed and had no match for the American bombsight. That's why it was used for night carpet bombings instead of precision daylight bombings as the B17 was.

The Brits did develop a tachimetric bombsight late in the war but the heavy lifting was always done by the Mighty Eighth. Simply superior equipment. Pretty, who the F knows or cares.

[yarddog]

The B-17 was in fact better armed as was the B-24.

The big advantage the Lancaster had was it’s incredible for the time bomb load. It could carry 22,000 pounds. It also had a much longer range than the B-17.

I will admit that an American aircraft carrying 13 .50 caliber guns was way ahead of 10 .303 machine guns.

I know that Lancasters were still being used only a few years ago, tho not as bombers.