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Someone (his name isn't coming up to me now) believed that Hitler was a British Double Agent, for not pursuing the Mediterranean Strategy. I wonder how much better the Abwehr would have been with anyone else as the head.

What if they had 20mm miniguns? :D You could fit those and ammo large enough for a minute of firing on a ships, maybe a few destroyers. Faster rate of fire would help. Could be primed to fire 5 seconds when you press the trigger and then you can move the gun for the rest 3-4 seconds. I bet...

Why isn't it enough for the auto cannons fire control to anticipate where to shoot the plane? Like find that it gets in range and shoot at it? Kinda like a early version of the Phalanx CIWS. Was the technology in world War two there to allow CIWS weapon systems on ships or no?

So it would be better to make it human operated then? Probably would be better to make it fire roughly 400 rounds and not 550. That number seems to high for me. Could better converse ammo. When did fire control systems know to deal with fuze settings and velocity measurement?

Woah! Impressive info! You amaze me again Shortround6. Despite your name you never come short of information. :p But one thing I am confused on is this. Why is the issue of mass production important if this engine came from from the United States of America? They made 18,697 engines between...

Interesting. Metallurgy for the mid 1940s was different than the mid 1930s? Would you mind being able to estimate how long such completion would take? How many more differences are there? Do you know any good books that explain the advance in metallurgy from 1930s to the 1940s, even 1950s, as I...

...fare as anti-aircraft artillery in the Second World War? Would it prove to be superior to the 40mm Bofors of that time period? I am aware that it is powered by fire control radar and not by human gunners. So just use whatever fire control radar they had in the Second World War. Even late...

Just get rid of the Bf 109 after 1943. I would rather produce Fw 190Ds by that point.

You know browsing along this thread and reading how much of the tech today is done with supercomputers, makes me believe the end of the Korean War, 1953, should be the stopgap for any effective application of tech to World War Two, unless something can be brought up. Who knows I may be wrong on...

Well is there some way Germany could have won that maybe I am not aware of? I always like to believe that I could be wrong and can earn from it.

Eh, German fanboys are much more cringey than American fanboys. Constantly harping about how the war could have been won. Unless they discover large deposits of oil Libya many years pre-war and have future knowledge of tech up to the 50s, I don't see how it could have been different. And you...

Why is the P-51 the most voted on overrated aircraft? It had its fair share of kills and played a role in winning the war in the skies. You wanna talk overrated? How about the ME 262? German fanboys will constantly bark about how it could have won the war, when it engines flamed out at 10-20...

Oh okay, thanks for pointing that out. My fault, should have picked a year for Germany. Thanks, though I already have been convinced that for the Atlantic it would be near useless due to the storms. A shame really. Would be nice to dodge those U-Boats. Though, there is the Hercules aircraft...

My thread was talking about for the Atlantic crossing or the early stages of Barbarossa. Definitely not that stage of the war.

Thanks for the post. Seems that had Germany had more fuel for interceptors, it may have helped. Woah, just reading about the Pe-2 and its raid on the Ploesti oil fields is impressive. It destroyed about a weeks worth fuel for a mechanized division. Just six of them. Though to be fair the Po-2...