drgondog
Major
How about May 8, 1945...![]()
Joe - or august 6, 1945..in which pitiful Allied technology created the one ship/one city concept for strategic airpower!
It is perfectly clear that the US and UK and USSR had worthless science, terrible engineering and even worse metallurgy when confronted by the brilliance and dominance posed by Germany in WWII.
The B-29, B-32, Lancaster, B-17 and B-24 were lousy designs compared to the vaunted He-177 and Do 17 and Do 217 and other heavy bombers that the Reich put out in such large numbers.
The Mosquito of course couldn't touch anything the LW put out... and all the mediums and light bombers such as the B-26, A-26 were clearly inferior.
The Japanese can attest that the US Fleet Boats and Brit subs never laid a hand on them, our carriers were pitiful, the US and Brit fleets in general second class in all respects to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan - including carrier aircraft.
The Mustang and Spit and Tempest and Yak3 and Thunderbolt were really lucky in all the encounters, the Garand was worthless, the Jeep a piece of junk, the C-47 was a nightmare, the T-34 and M-26 and M10 were engineering failures, the 3.5 Bazooka had no value, the M2 machine gun was idiocy and besides nearly ancient in WWII, the Liberty ship was a non contributor, etc. etc.
We designed lousy stuff - and worse - we put them into the field in shortest times and greatest numbers. I know we did it because we had lousy engineers so an inferior product can be made cheaply and quickly.
And even worse than that, we went into a steady technological decline in military and scientific development after the war was over thanks to really deficient technology and science - including breaking the speed of sound, putting a man on the moon and building dumb aircraft like the SR-71 and F-117.
I mean, how stupid can we really get?