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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:30:48 -0000, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote: "Bernardz" wrote in message news:MPG.1a6d71e35858d65d989841@news... In article , says... The critical developments that Germany failed tomake IMHO are less obvious large scale projects. A reliable proximity fuse could have made allied aircraft losses much heavier. Better attention to production factors in weapons design could have radically improved productivity in the arms plants. Instead of sending so much money on V2 it could have been better spent on air to air missiles or developing SAMs. Air to air missiles only help if you can put fighters in the air and given the scale of the task it seems unlikely that SAM's would have been available in a timely manner or in sufficient quantities and they would have been vulnerable to jamming. These are actually the sort of complex developments the Nazis went in for. Less radical developments such as improved gyroscopic gunsights, prosximity fuses and predictors were pursued by the allies to great efect. Keith I get the distinct impression that many german projects were designed to appeal to higher ups who really had no business making such decisions. Continued design work on the H series of Battleships, the V2 projects, etc. But Keith is right-- imagine what would have happened if they'd had one directing authority that could say: "Right. Let's pull all the eggheads off this bloody stupid V2 project and put them on the proximinty fuse. Those that can't do the fuse, send them to figure out how to improve our production speed on vital components, etc." |
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