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So half the price of a P-40, quarter the price of a Lightning, that's really really good.~2.5RM to 1USD in 1941
Because they had to cross water to get back to base I presume? Wherever possible Park/Dowding wanted combat over land.1 in 6 Bf 109's lost in the BoB were because they came down in the water.
I believe that the Bf 109F solved the engine overheating problem that's why it was 70 kmh faster at sea level. So while the Bf 109E & /N versions were theoretically faster, it was dangerous to do so. The combat reports I've read show the Hurricane gaining on the E at sea level.Because they had to cross water to get back to base I presume? Wherever possible Park/Dowding wanted combat over land.
So half the price of a P-40, quarter the price of a Lightning, that's really really good.
It's total nonsense.So half the price of a P-40, quarter the price of a Lightning, that's really really good.
There is more than the monetary conversion to consider. For example, wages and 'slave labour' doesn't get a paycheck.
There are other issues too. Bf 109s were still being produced in numbers when there was no fuel or pilots to fly them. Reports of quality standards dropping were hardly a surprise when slave labour was punished for not meeting targets for things that it was known wouldn't be used.There is more than the monetary conversion to consider. For example, wages and 'slave labour' doesn't get a paycheck.
So half the price of a P-40, quarter the price of a Lightning, that's really really good.
The important issue isn't cost or man hours it is or was the UK alone passed Germany in production of single engine fighters in 1940 and continued to outproduce until around 1943 IIRC. The LW as a bomber force was at its strongest before the invasion of France. Whatever the cost in money or man hours, not enough were produced when needed and many produced far too late to change anything.
I didn't say irrelevant but of little relevance when the chips are down. 5,000 Sopwith Camels taking 1000 man hours to make would be of no use to the 1940 RAF, just and 20 Gloster Meteors wouldn't be. It only becomes a relevant issue when you have competitive designs, then you can consider producing the numbers you need and how many men you need, almost all labour was semi skilled everywhere in 1940 because so few stressed skinned monoplanes had been made by anyone, they all had to train people. The parlous state of the German aircraft industry was what happens in a system close to collapse, it is almost a miracle that they produced what they did for as long as they did but I cant see why they did. There were no fuel or pilots for the planes they made.I`m not sure I`d agree entirely that man-hours were irrelevant, as even semi-skilled labour was limited, especially later on when so many had been conscripted.
I cant see why they did. There were no fuel or pilots for the planes they made.
There are other issues too. Bf 109s were still being produced in numbers when there was no fuel or pilots to fly them. Reports of quality standards dropping were hardly a surprise when slave labour was punished for not meeting targets for things that it was known wouldn't be used.
There is more than the monetary conversion to consider
There were other issues too, there were still people working on a European broad gauge railway in Berlin in 1945. Producing aircraft or designing railways meant you weren't given a gun and sent to the front so it was in everyones interest to keep doing it, even when there was no fuel or pilots.That is why I said,
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There were other issues too, there were still people working on a European broad gauge railway in Berlin in 1945. Producing aircraft or designing railways meant you weren't given a gun and sent to the front so it was in everyones interest to keep doing it, even when there was no fuel or pilots.
Sort of, but some slave labourers were dedicated to wrecking what others made. I think much of the survey and comparisons were interesting to the USA to compare how they performed relative to the opposition, but only the most general comparisons can be made. Even in UK there was sabotage, like explosives in exhaust manifolds.Man-hour comparisons are useful even in the case of slave-labor or unlimited dollar budgets, because there are only so many man-hours (or woman-hours) to go around.