they managed to squeeze a gunner on it, can't see how it can't fit a radar on it.
I doubt a 30cm plug to increase the lenght and put a radar screen and a radar operator would affect it's handling or speed by a lot.
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they managed to squeeze a gunner on it, can't see how it can't fit a radar on it.How are you going to get a radar in an Fw 187? How are you going to get the required screens?
Japanese were just as extravagant with projects, especially considering their industrial base.
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After the BoB was lost, the war was lost. By autumn 1940 Germany is already burning through more strategic resources, food and fuel than they can readily replace. And now they're about to join the Italians in North Africa and Greece and are already planning their ill-conceived invasion of the USSR. The smarter Führer would have sought an armistice with Britain and withdrawn from France to regroup. It's eastward that you want to go, not south or west.After the BoB was lost by the Germans, airpower would still have to play a significant role in subduing the UK.
After the BoB was lost, the war was lost. By autumn 1940 Germany is already burning through more strategic resources, food and fuel than they can readily replace. And now their about to join the Italians in North Africa and Greece and are already planning their ill-conceived invasion of the USSR. The smarter Führer would have sought an armistice with Britain and withdrawn from France to regroup. It's eastward that you want to go, not south or west.
Uber Führer?The smarter Führer
At least in terms of the Luftwaffe modern studies contradict this by saying the main reason for the rise was production efficiencies due to producing the same designs since the start of the war, ending corruption and rewarding efficiency, the increasing use of 'deskilling' and specialized machine tools, etc.Bomber Command's War Against Germany,, based on official RAF sources, argues that reduction in nonmilitary items was a factor in the productivity rise of 1944.
Hmm.... I think I'll take Lyft instead.Uber Führer?
At least in terms of the Luftwaffe modern studies contradict this by saying the main reason for the rise was production efficiencies due to producing the same designs since the start of the war, ending corruption and rewarding efficiency, the increasing use of 'deskilling' and specialized machine tools, etc.
Arming the Luftwaffe by Daniel Uziel is a good start.
This is also a good paper:
That doesn't mean that as the war went on civilian production wasn't curtailed increasingly, but they were way more mobilized economically than the US or UK ever were.
No problem. I don't fully agree with the linked paper, as, IIRC, they claim elimination of inefficiency didn't help and they don't account for problems caused by the bombing. They seem to get a bit to 'economist' in mindset when it comes to reducing everything to numbers and forgetting some of the qualifiers that impacted things. The Uziel book is overall better IMHO, though Budrass (one of the authors of the paper) arguably wrote THE book about the Luftwaffe's supporting industry.Thanks. I'll read your link and offer a reply, if needed, in a bit. I appreciate you taking the time to post it.
No problem. I don't fully agree with the linked paper, as, IIRC, they claim elimination of inefficiency didn't help and they don't account for problems caused by the bombing. They seem to get a bit to 'economist' in mindset when it comes to reducing everything to numbers and forgetting some of the qualifiers that impacted things. The Uziel book is overall better IMHO, though Budrass (one of the authors of the paper) arguably wrote THE book about the Luftwaffe's supporting industry.
The He280 was intended to use the HeS8 until the HeS30 was available.The He 280 was designed to use the small and light jets being designed by Heinkel but those were all abandoned. The interesting engine is the HeS 30, which may have been very good for late 1942 if you trust Heinkel. However, by then Heinkel had already sacked its designer and never made great progress with the later 011.
Hitler could've been blown up and replaced by Martin Luther himself (probably even more antisemitic than Hitler himself, lol) and Britain wouldn't still accept even a cease-fire.After the BoB was lost, the war was lost. By autumn 1940 Germany is already burning through more strategic resources, food and fuel than they can readily replace. And now they're about to join the Italians in North Africa and Greece and are already planning their ill-conceived invasion of the USSR. The smarter Führer would have sought an armistice with Britain and withdrawn from France to regroup. It's eastward that you want to go, not south or west.
I wonder if a neutral italy would be much better for germany, a place to import stuff from asia and america, factories that although obsolete and inefficient are unable to be attacked, even a neutral place for a potential negotiation with the allies, let's say Mussolini get's whacked and the anglophile Balbo takes over.The whole Nazi strategy was based on lighting war/lightning victory; if the war's not won by 1943, it's lost.
After BoB, the only hope for defeating Britain would have been winning the Battle of the Atlantic. Armistice and air war were dead horses. (It was already too late for victory in the Atlantic, but they wouldn't have known that yet.) Meanwhile, hit Russia with everything they had (and probably fail miserably, but they wouldn't have known that yet, either.)
So to answer the original question: after BoB, they needed to forget about jets, rockets, diesel, etc, put everything they had into churning out whatever was currently in production, and throw it at the Russians as fast as possible. (And forget about propping up Mussolini while they were at it.) Hope that the Americans would stay out of the war and keep on believing that the Enigma system was impenetrable. Most likely that strategy would have also resulted in failure, but at least it would have been consistent with their pre-war planning.
Good points, including in the link. I agree that the Nazi strategy assumed victory on all fronts, otherwise they were screwed. Their only problem in 1940 was that the British didn't completely throw in with the French, so the Nazis couldn't defeat both at once. After that, it was all downhill. By 1944, it didn't matter what airplanes and engines they were using, their pilots were dying and not being replaced. The General Staff hd already predicted that they could only win a short war; after that, their only option would have been to load themselves into some Fw200's and fly to South America.Deciding that the Luftwaffe will be using jets for its frontline forces by 1944 is consistent with throwing everything at Russia. The reason that German produced more steel than the USSR and fewer tanks or guns was to a significant extent because of the synthetic fuel program. If the German leadership believed that Baku will be captured in 1942 and that they will not need so much high octane fuel by 1944, they can produce many more weapons for the war with Russia. As it was, production for Barbarossa was limited to what was thought to be necessary (I am repeating myself How to prepare Luftwaffe for Barbarossa if accurate intel on Soviet forces?).
Hitler could've been blown up and replaced by Martin Luther himself (probably even more antisemitic than Hitler himself, lol) and Britain wouldn't still accept even a cease-fire.
I don't think the war was about nazism or the holocaust, everyone knew something was going on after 1943, the Nurember trials seem to be more focused on "crimes against peace" than anything else, it was to curb germany from ever threatening france and england ever again, economically or militarily.
Best case scenario is some sort of cold war for a couple of years until stalin rebuilds his purged army and tries something.
I wonder if a neutral italy would be much better for germany, a place to import stuff from asia and america, factories that although obsolete and inefficient are unable to be attacked, even a neutral place for a potential negotiation with the allies, let's say Mussolini get's whacked and the anglophile Balbo takes over.
It is the famous rubber fw 187. It stretches in any direction to accommodate the needed fuel, armament or equipment needed for any role, all at no penalty to performance.
they managed to squeeze a gunner on it, can't see how it can't fit a radar on it.
If he stopped at munich, he'd be the hero even today, there would be probably a lot of his statues going around until the 2000s.I'd go one further and say that the winning strategy for Germany would have been not to fight a war, but to dominate Europe economically. Fill the skies with airliners and airships (filled with helium, which the U.S. would have gladly sold to a peaceful country) and set their Jewish scientists, engineers and doctors with inventing the technologies that would have made Germany a world leader, if not for a thousand years, at least well into the 21st century.