It "disappeared" because we dropped it. We believed it was too risky and would put us at a disadvantage vs the USA and the UK. Also, that was 2 in-game years ago...
Who was "We"? I have been through the game play thread over tea to reaffirm my position last time I queried why the Land focus role had disappeared, and could not find any post towards this at all. There wasn't any negative comment for the Dec '40 - May '41 update (post #530) and it was already approved in the research list then. The only questioning comment I could find between then and the next update was your query Cybvep;
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Should we terminate the development of CAG Land Focus?
Then after you took over from Comm Cody for a bit you [Cybvep] even liked the idea of the focus;
#566
I also believe that land focus for our CAGs may be a good idea, but only if we expand our bomber force.
Surt even commented between the two posts directly on air strategy (#546) but he didn't dismiss the idea at all, rather he didn't comment either way.
Yet, for some unknown reason in the Jun '41 - Aug '41 Update (#594) the tech disappears from the research queue. Not to be noticed until much later when I wanted to put the naval focus in the queue. Yet finding that it hadn't been researched I wanted to make it top priority so we could get a move on with updating the air doctrine.
Honestly I don't mind odd mistakes, but I do find it a bit rich to have it stated that their was 'some decision made' when in fact there wasn't any dissenting voices back then. There haven't been when I asked it put back on the research list for a
second time, and
only now people querying the concept as if they totally disagreed with it from the start. We were still using air support in China then, and it will be likely that we will again in the future, or elsewhere against the Allies. Even people think they [CAGs] are only for use at sea.
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However given that now the rest high command has decided following this debarcle not to support this motion there is little point continuing it, if it is going to breed dissension. What I said on how our carriers will not be able to go toe to toe with the Americans will hold whether or not this tech was completed or not. Therefore I do believe we are wasting an opportunity by not following this strategy. We'll all have to realise that because the rest of the high command has expressed a wish to end this research, then they have wasted many valuable research days by terminating it.
My last comment on this will be that; I hope the army commanders understand that in the future I won't be that forthcoming in supporting large scale operations against powers that need really need some form of bomber wing, because we haven't put in place any migigating measure.