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There was no finance issue. There was a balance of trade issue. Key distinction

No, the Balkans did not "have options" in 1939, and the amount of leeway they had depends on the country. The were betrayed by Britain in 1938 and were already solidly in the German economic sphere, even if German economic hegemony wasn't achieved until 1940. By 1939, Hungary and Bulgaria were...

Greater Germany was not food self-sufficient. The annexation of Austria and Czechia actually reduced their level of food sufficiency.

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are not part of Plan Z, they were designed many years before Plan Z was ever conceived of. This is dishonest bookkeeping on your part.

Are you accusing HistoryLearner of using AI? Nothing in his post indicates that. If he did use AI, it would be easy to check if the sources cited don’t even exist…

In my experience this paint has some of the worst durability I’ve ever experienced. Even with a coat of VMS Matt varnish, enamel thinner will still rub off the paint (yes, I left plenty of time for each layer to cure)

Well Shortround, we are in the “What If” section of the forum, so I don’t see why the Germans would have to stick to the historical crappy Z-2 project and are free to make changes I have recently read your posts in other threads where you demonstrate how the He 111 really was an afterthought...

Dornier proposed a similar a/c in 1937 but was rejected by the RLM

Speaking of suitable desings, what do you all think of each of these options, perhaps assuming Wever lives: He 111Z. Historically this was proposed much later, however there is no technical reason why this could not have been developed before late 1939. This obviously is not the "Superbomber"...

I'm trying to figure out if the He 177 had "average" or really poor payload over range. From the data sheets and manuals I've come across it seems that the Manchester/Lancaster blow the 177 out of the water, but in turn appears better than the B-17G, B-24, and Halifax. I'm not sure why the 177's...

Does anyone know how much fuel the 606/610 guzzled? Was it particularly worse than the 601/605? I am trying to understand why the He 177 seems to have a very short range and my suspicion is the extraordinary weight and high fuel consumption of the engines. However I can’t find anything online to...

Why is that? Was it an accuracy issue or was the armament simply too weak?

A poor excuse

Which R-4360 based design had the best potential as a true fighter to take on the next wave of piston-engined Axis designs in mid-late 1945? By that I mean Fw 190A-10 (BMW 801F), Fw 190D-13/D-15, Ta 152C/Ta 152H, Bv 155C. Do 335, A7M, J6K, Ki-100, N1K5. The point here isn't asking "what if XF8B...

I'm getting conflicting reports, most sources report 357 mph, but this SAC manual that I found on this site from 1950 claims 383 mph with 20,000 lbs of bombs. At first I thought that the 1950 document was the B-50 with 3,500 hp Pratt & Whitney R-4360-35's, but the document clearly shows it's for...