Audrie_Dawn wrote:
They did produce the Fw-190,
Way to back track
but the Bf-109 was their primary front-line fighter (especially during the Battle of Britain period) despite being vastly inferior and not significantly cheaper.
The Fu-190 didn't enter service until 1941; of course the Me109 was there main fighter in the battle of Britain.
And retooling the production base, Germany was very backward when it came to this and even the simple basics of mass production, would have cost them a vast amount of time in which the factories are producing nothing. The Me109 was one of countless less then optimum weapons which remained in production because numbers beat quality.
The engines and guns sucked because the factories were being bombed to hell and they had to rush-job with crappy materials, which doesn't apply to a smart-Germany scenario because they wouldn't have wasted the Luftwaffe over Britain and hence could put up an infinitely nastier fighter defense (in the best case, they could concievably score a reverse Battle of Britain).
Luftwaffe made good its losses over Britain and in fact reached its peak strength much later in the war you know, what they got was the best it was going to be. Night fighters are more expensive then single seat day fighters. As it was German night defenses had upwards of a thousand fighters in service at any one time, and could call on something like fifteen thousand heavy anti aircraft guns which fired off incredible amounts of ammunition, all manned by over one point five million men, plus another few million kept busy fixing damage.
There's not much that can be done to improve on that. The resource drain was already enormous and the nature of night attacks had a pesky aspect that an attack could never be turned back.
The Me-262 design was quite good and (amusingly enough) had almost exactly the same performance statistics as the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star.
Actually it was slightly better. But considering that the P-80 was deployed to Italy in 1944, its not exactly surprising that two planes of the same vintage would be roughly comparable now is it?
The Meteor is no match for the Me-262, which is more heavily armed and has better performance, and the Bell P-59 Airacomet was universally agreed to be a joke (there's a reason they only ever built 66 of them before dumping the type completely and developing the P80). The P-80 is the only fighter that can take on a -262 in an even fight.
Good thing it was ready for combat at the same time the Me262 was, major production then being delayed for the lack of a threat.
Yes, the StG-44 was so impossible to control that every German soldier wanted one and the Russians based the AK-47 on it.
So you're admitting its nothing more then a glorified overpowered submachine gun in action? Thanks for proving my point.
FYI, the StG-44 isn't a battle-rifle gone auto like the M-14 or G3, it's a true assault rifle firing a reduced-power round precisely so that it IS controllable in full auto.
No one has ever built a rifle over 7mm that can be controlled with fully automatic fire.
Not until towards the END of the war, wheras the Germans had the Panthers by the MIDDLE of the war. Tanks that can rape the enemy are no good to you if they're still in the middle of being designed!
The first Stalin's entered service in late 1943, though the potent KV-85 could have seen mass production well before then had more German heavy armor showed up, the first Panthers showed up in action in mid 1943 but remained unreliable junk until early 1944
Proof? The Type-21 is considered one of the four truly revolutionary sub designs (the Holland for being the first sub, the Type-21 for being the first sub designed for underwater rather than surface operations, the Nautilus for nuclear power and the Albacore for the advanced hull design), and I seriously doubt that any minor retrofit can give you the equivalent of hydrodynamic streamlining,
Actually it's really just a matter of welding on a few dozen tons of extra speed.
a torpedo autoloader system,
Which worked poorly at best.
radar-absorbent hull,
German RAM had a lifespan mesaured in days and worked poorly in the first place
a snorkel
And advanced feature found on Dutch boats dating back a decade plus, a captured boat is how the germans found out about it. Fitting one to any sub was easily, the US and UK converted dozens of subs.
and most importantly an overall design that was intended from the start to operate as an underwater submarine rather than a submergable torpedo boat.
Except that Russia and Germany have a non-interference treaty and the U.S.A. is very, very far away.
We all know how much the Russians value paper. In fact Stalin was planning an attack on Germany when the historic invasion came, and he was getting rather annoyed at the Germans anyway because they owed the Union a vast amount, which they simply could not pay, for raw materials.
America is ten days away for the average freighter and German never once reached its goal for the amount of shipping needed merely to defeat UK construction efforts. And you seem deluded into the fact that the US will stay out, it simply will not happen. Two US destroyers had already been torpedoed, and once the US is at war with Japan, another such attack will bring war with America one way or another.