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Would Hitler's Wonder Weapons if utilized earlier properly, have turned the tide in the over all direction of the war?
I think it would only would have prolonged the war b/c the allies were working on their own jet fighters and the Red hoardes were overwhelming coming from the east.
Hi 16KJV11,
>Would Hitler's Wonder Weapons if utilized earlier properly, have turned the tide in the over all direction of the war?
Well, what's "properly"? And what do you count as "Wonder Weapon"?
If it would have been possible to build the Me 262 in numbers from mid-1943 on, that would have made a major impact on the conduct of the air war in the West, perhaps even making a 1944 invasion impossible.
(The Me 262 and the Jumo 004A was technologically ready, but the engine could not be mass-produced due to a lack of rare metals. Re-designing the engine for the available materials is what delayed the Me 262 for so long.)
Williamson Murray made a good point regarding the V-1 - it would have been much more useful as a guide surface-to-air missile than as a ballistical surface-to-surface missile. However, it's doubtful whether it would have been available in time to make a difference, even if it had been planned as a SAM from the beginning.
Regards,
Henning (HoHun)
The Atom Bomb trumps Hitlers Wonder weapons everytime. Unless the Germans developed the bomb, wonder weapoms at best could have extended the duration of the war by months only.
The V-2 weapons project was a huge drain on man-hours, technicians and development in key areas like instrumentation. The V-1 was more effective for the amount of reasources it used. Mostly in tying up allied resources in intercepting them.
Question of the year: Would the Allies have used "The Bomb" on Nazi Germany?
Just an idle question, but intriguing to me.