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had actually put a U.S. style R&D system in place during WWII, and
instead of coming up with (however pretty they look on paper) dozens
of designs that never made it beyond wind tunnal designs and focused
on say two or three fighter designs.
For example, if they'd pushed through the first jet fighter design
in 1940 (I forget what it was called), and focused on incremental
improvmeents instead of always running to the next design.

WW2 jets were short range, it was suitable for defence against bombers
and V1. Hitler did not need such technology in 1940.

Certainly in hindsight Hitler could have used much earlier eg improved
submarines, better coding equipment and sub-machine guns. Similarly a V1
would have been very useful in battle of Britain. Note the Allies did
not have them either so one cannot blame his lack of U.S. style R&D.




Would this have had a major impact on WWII, or just drawn it out by
a few months?


A few months, the Allies would be dropping hundreds of nuclear bombs.


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Should the government be responsible for individual's stupidity?

30th observation of Bernard