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I disagree. There are a multitude of WWII era wonder weapons which worked just fine. For instance:
Proximity fuze.
HE mine shell.
MG42 machinegun.
Bounding anti personnel mine.
Panzerfaust.
7.5cm/48, 7.5cm/70 and 8.8cm/56 armored vehicle cannon.
Atomic bomb.
120mm infantry mortar.
Napalm.
P-51 long range escort fighter.
Mosquito pathfinder aircraft.
Radar.
Landing Ship Dock (which 1930s Japan called a landing craft carrier).
The hard part involves determining which design proposals have a chance for success and which are simply pipe dreams.
Theres a reason why virtually every single aircraft flying today is not a Flying Wing. The more the Germans played with VunderVeapons the quicker the inevitable defeat the LW needed more Me262 and Ar234s not an aircraft that after years of development and hundreds of test flights might have been made into a useful combat aircraft.
the Horten flying wing. Perhaps, the aircraft of the Second World War the most ahead of its time than any other
No offence but I just don't get this.
It was a flying wing, that was not unique even in 1944/45.
It had 2 jet engines, again not unique at this stage.
Some of the Luft 46 stuff makes me laugh; some looks interesting.
NONE of it had a prayer of getting built and flown ... except maybe the Ta 182. It probably COULD have been built and flown, but wasn't. So it's pie in the sky.
Actually, the Ta183 was built postwar as the Brazilian Pulqui II and one of the 4 even saw combat.... except maybe the Ta 182. It probably COULD have been built and flown, but wasn't.
Actually, the Ta183 was built postwar as the Brazilian Pulqui II and one of the 4 even saw combat.
If you look at the Ta183 concepts, the most popular design was V1 that people associate with the Ta183. However, after extensive testing and modifications, it was V3 that was decided to produce, but time ran out before anything came of it.
The Russians did get the plans, and it's been said they built and flew it...and apparently, they borrowed several design features although Russian historian Yefim Gordon says that the MiG-15 was completely a native design with no western influence...
This is the Brazilian "Ta183" AKA the Pulqui:
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Hmmm...sure looks familiar, doesn't it?