Soren, their was absolutley no strategic vision in the LW. Period. End of story.
Wrong. Goering had a limited strategic vision, which held back the LW many times. To say the LW had no strategic vision is to just plain lie - Britain nearly fell hadn't it (again) been for Hitler.
The US had the P80, P47N and P51H. (And I will let the RAF experts counter with the advanced Brit types).
The P-80 wouldn't fly properly until 1946, and even then it was inferior to the Me-262a1. The P-47N and P-51H are no match for the Me-262a1, just gunfodder.
And no a/c had a hope catching the Ar-234, it would be far far away from the point of radar detection to intercept.
What impact on the war did the Me262 have? Ta-152? Ar-234. None.
Thats the thing about you, you don't give the slightest thought as to how, cause you're one of those people who fool themselves by saying *The allies won so everything they made must have been better*.
FACT: The LW was grossly out-numbered in the air - sure they had a good number of a/c at their disposal, the big problem was however a huge lack of trained pilots and most crucially fuel ! If you had just the slightest idea of how the shortage of fuel affected the LW - many LW pilots could only watch from the ground as the Allies flew over, there simply wasn't anywhere near enough fuel for all a/c to get airborne.
The Me-262 would also have had a far greater impact on the war had Hitler not have it act primarily as a fighter/bomber, a role it wasn't at all built for, it was a pure fighter and should've had this role from the beginning.
An excellent plane no doubt. In fact, potentially the best fighter plane in the last month of the war in the ETO. Now what impact on the war did it have?
How are less than 50 a/c going to affect the war nomatter how good they are ?? Esp. if only half of them or less can take off because of fuel shortage.
Actually no. But since the LORAN was further devolped after the war, and used by almost everyone, meant it was the superior system.[]
Wrong.
Yes, extensively.
By the way, USN and RN had their own verisons that worked quite well.
Waay to small and only effective at low depth - plus easily countered. The German Torpedoes were far better, but they also started out way earlier in this field.
Yes, advanced.... but.... impact on the war?
Again think about the odds...
Low octane synthetic fuels, that needed additional refining steps to make it hi octane to keep up with the allied mass production of high quality fuels.
Wrong, C3 wasn't needed, even with B4 fuel the German engines out-performed their Allied counterparts.
And the allies didnt need synthetic fuel technology during the war did they?
Could've saved them alot of expense...
Plenty of allied pilots ran their engines over the 5 minutes and flew home to tell the mechanics about it.
Ten maybe ?? Far more didn't even attempt it or wrecked the engine trying.
But then, it didnt matter because the allies were building engines by the tens of thousands and it was easier to replace an engine than repair it.
Can you call that "effective" ?? No, a utilization of superior industrial capacity.
So the inferior allies flying inferior aircraft, flown by inferior pilots ended up shooting down the whole LW?
Huh ?? No, well trained Allied pilots flying medicore aircraft defeated the grossly out-numbered, later poorly trained, starved of fuel Luftwaffe pilots flying equal or superior aircraft.
The facts are clear. The allies developed the A bomb and the Germans didnt. This thread is about the here and now, not the should have, could have.
Yes the fact ARe clear, fact is Hitler rejected the Idea and therefore "robbed" the Germans of the A-bomb - fortunately so.