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Originally Posted by salinator
The Luftwaffe was not able to control the skies.
The Luftwaffe did not have an armor piercing bomb to take on the RN, or an air to surface torpedo for that matter.
River barges were not easy to manuever and protect enroute across the channel.
The Kriegsmarine did not have any heavy units available except for the Admiral Hipper available to support said invasion.
The Kriegsmarine did not have many U-boats available and operating in the confines of the channel would have been a death sentence for them.
The German destroyers were decimated in Norway.
The RAF is not gonna sit it out against the channel crossing.
Even if the Germans managed to land, there were no viable means of resupply.
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The Germans did have aerial torpedos at that point (not that it would have mattered much) the He 115 and the Fi 167 (an excellent aircraft) were both torpedo bombers produced in the late 1930's. There were probably others. I agree with all your other points though. Sealion would never have gotten past the RN/RAF. Even if they did manage to land, the tenacity of the British fighting on their own turf, defending their own island, would have been insurmountable.