25.11.2012, 00:59
caldrail,
That is all true.
It is obvious that at the beginning and early war years, the brains, experience, technology, and industry were there to accomplish any one of the practical advanced airplane concepts. As you made clear, the will on the other hand was subject to many disruptive factors. The blunders of almost all the top leadership in Germany made new programs nearly impossible to be successful in turning the course of the war. An obvious example was to divert huge labor and resources to the "V" weapons programs instead of more effort in defense of Allied bombing. Another one is the year and a half delay of the first jet interceptor directly because of Hitler's leadership. Jets could have been delivered in large numbers in 1943 at exactly the time when daylight bombing was paused several times because of severe Allied losses.
However, total industrial capacity was actually increasing well into 1944 in German controlled areas before it began to decline after a few months in that year. It is fascinating and alarming to see what might have been if Nazi decisions were ideal for program development instead of blundering. :OO
Clinton
That is all true.
It is obvious that at the beginning and early war years, the brains, experience, technology, and industry were there to accomplish any one of the practical advanced airplane concepts. As you made clear, the will on the other hand was subject to many disruptive factors. The blunders of almost all the top leadership in Germany made new programs nearly impossible to be successful in turning the course of the war. An obvious example was to divert huge labor and resources to the "V" weapons programs instead of more effort in defense of Allied bombing. Another one is the year and a half delay of the first jet interceptor directly because of Hitler's leadership. Jets could have been delivered in large numbers in 1943 at exactly the time when daylight bombing was paused several times because of severe Allied losses.
However, total industrial capacity was actually increasing well into 1944 in German controlled areas before it began to decline after a few months in that year. It is fascinating and alarming to see what might have been if Nazi decisions were ideal for program development instead of blundering. :OO
Clinton