Edited sentence: Capable of carrying a 909kg (20001b) bomb load over a radius of 1609km (1000 miles), the four-engined Condors were to prove the 'Scourge of the Atlantic1, hitting merchant ships or guiding U-boats in their direction, but there were never enough of them to be decisive.In the spring of 1940, for example, the Luftwaffe began to deploy Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range converted airliners for maritime reconnaissance and attack.It was another case of too little, too late