Brown's intelligence briefing credited the Condor with a 5,000-kilogram bomb load, nearly as much as a Lancaster. That estimate combined four 1,000-kilogram bombs under the wings with two 500-kilogram bombs in the ventral gondola. Later information put its normal offensive or reconnaissance load at four 250-kilogram bombs. The defensive-armament estimate was closer, although it still included weapons that the aircraft did not carry. His retrospective comparison separates what pilots were told before combat from capabilities established afterward.
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An exaggerated Condor bomb load in wartime intelligence
Brown compares an alarming wartime intelligence briefing with the much smaller Condor bomb load established later.