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".... Do you think that in 1944 the combined powers of the U.S. Britain, and Germany could defeat the Soviet Air-force?"
Why are you limiting this question to just the Soviet "Air-force"?
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1944 Germany could defeat the Soviet Union all by itself provided the USA ends Lend-Lease support to keep the Soviet economy going.1944 the combined powers of the U.S. Britain, and Germany could defeat the Soviet Military?
1944 Germany could defeat the Soviet Union all by itself provided the USA ends Lend-Lease support to keep the Soviet economy going.
Probably fewer then what Stalin killed historically. That's why places like the Ukraine and Caucasus welcomed Germany with open arms.
The bigger question is whether new nations such as Poland, Ukraine and the Don Republic would fight each other after the Russo-German war ends as happened during 1919.
If Germany doesn't maintain strong occupation forces the former Soviet Union could errupt into a bloodbath of multiple border conflicts.
I can't really see this new war ending good for either side.
I would think the Japaneses would side with "NATO" looking at past experiences with Russia, what do you think?
That's not exactly true. There were huge holes in Soviet production which were filled by Lend-Lease imports. For instance about half of Soviet steel was made in the USA. The same goes for chemicals used to produce explosives and artillery propellent.
Let's put the shoe on the other foot. In this scenerio the USA has decided to help Germany. So Germany now gets Lend-Lease economic assistance.
Petroleum products.
Tungsten
Copper
Chromium.
Nickel.
The Panther tank was relatively inexpensive to mass produce
and now Germany has raw materials to make as many as they want. A German version of Tankograd sprouts next to a major port such as Hamburg.
Many of the machine tools for this massive factory complex are from the USA
along with half the raw materials necessary for production. After a year or so the German Tankograd is producing 1,000 Panther tanks per month along with half tracks and SP artillery. Wheeled vehicles are imported straight from Detroit by the 100s of thousands.
1943 had already proved Russia could take on defeat German arms on the ground in the air decisively, despite occasional - and rare - German tactical successes
(Russian industrial output is simply vastly greater than Germany's by 1944 I can see no way the western powers (in this twilight vision) could ever supply Germany fast enough to make much difference to the coming Russian steam-roller which is fast gathering pace.
That is anposition that has cost the UK more then you know , I know of contracts lost by the UK because the attitude "that no one is as capable as the UK to make precision tools or equipment and we can't expect you to understand".....and this completely ignores the issues the American did have when they tried making complex military parts with machinery they had the blue-prints for staff giving technical advice from the original producers.
Shipping raw resources is one thing but complex components is very different not done easily.
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The Panther was not only unreliable to start with but was not that cheap to make (being more costly than the Panzer 4H) although thanks to the efforts made to reduce costs they did fall.
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The Germans manufactured the same quantity of planes and armored vehicles than the Soviets in 1944. Nothing bad for a country that was under a naval blockade, was being bombed, with it's military production slipted in several areas (U-boats, AA guns for the Allied bombers) against a state that wasn't being bombed and was being supported with massive foreign aid....
Germans outproducing Soviets? In 1944? Mate you better check your references. In fact I would like you to give list of sources to support your claim.
Regarding the Land-Lease I want to be perfectly clear (as I was before in similar discussions on the forum). This was valuable aid to the Soviet war effort, but by no means decisive.
One can think how the German production would outperform the Soviet if not for such factors, not to mention the quality.
That is anposition that has cost the UK more then you know , I know of contracts lost by the UK because the attitude "that no one is as capable as the UK to make precision tools or equipment and we can't expect you to understand"