15.04.2010, 02:53
Thee_oddball Wrote:ACE and Storebror , the Germans could have produced the 183, they had the abilities and the know howWell...
1945 is a little back in the past and today we know a few things Germans didn't know that time and we can sit back and take a little more time to think things over.
Lets enlist the requirements for the 183 to become a success story:
1.) If the Russians would have stopped some 100kms east of Berlin and
2.) If the US+British+Wohever else would have stopped some 100kms west of the Rhine and
3.) If the US would have denied themselves from dropping A-Bombs on Germany, Germans would have had time to continue the war.
4.) If someone would have been kind enough to provide fuel, steel and pilots to the Germans, they would have had the neccessary resources to let their dreams fly.
5.) (Let's become more specific to the 183) If Focke-Wulf would have sorted out the issues of loosing the 183's tail, it could have had landings too.
6.) If Focke-Wulf would have finally agreed to one of the lots of designs (the 3 known possibilities already differ in ways from each other), they would have had something to continue to work on.
7.) If Heinkel would have finally sorted out the series of issues to the highly difficult construction of the diagonal compressor of the HeS 011 (Mr. Schelp's child - one of the set of difficulties was that this was a work put together from two Teams, M
'Armor' is a fantasy invented by your C.O. to make you feel better.