From: (robert arndt)


(B2431) wrote in message
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From: (robert arndt)
Date: 1/26/2004 1:23 AM Central Standard Time
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(The Germans were never able to dope out a
workable proximity fuze. Acoustic? Don't make me laugh!).

The Germans had every type of proximity fuse under development at the
end of the war including: radio, EM, IR, electo-optical, and your
favorite- acoustic! Ever heard of Kranich? The X-4 aam used it:

http://www.luft46.com/missile/x-4.html

Rob

So they had them "under development" and had more on the way. The U.S.,
U.K.
and the Soviets had all kinds of stuff "under development" at the end of
the
war. Big deal. Your hero blew his brains out before anything came of these
developments.

The Third Reich was a failure in every sense of the word.

Except that it took 6 years to defeat them with a deluge of men &
material approaching 11-to-1 in 1945. Also, the war cost 60 million
lives, laid waste to most of Europe, cost Britain it's world power
status, Britain, France and Belgium their colonies, established the US
and USSR as superpowers, and furnished both with weapons that
radically changed the way we fought postwar... not to mention
advancing aviation greatly and starting a space race that produced
satellites and the eventual landing of a man on the moon.
Other than that, you're right Dan.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Rob


I still can't understand why you adore the Nazi sewage that started that war.
Even if they hadn't started the war Nazi Germany would have been a major flop
in the long run.

On the anniversaty of Adolph "hey, look at all the fools who think I am Aryan"
Hitler's birthday do you stand out side like a good Nazi and yell "six million
more?" It would not surprise me in the least.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired