"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"robert arndt" wrote in message
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Well said. Three cheers for the guy with a brain!
I'll give you another example comparison between US and German
tech
from 1945.
Had the war gone on just until the fall of 1945 the German soldier
would have had: a new M44 stalhelm, M44 Liebermuster camouflage
(which
contained carbon and IR defeating dyes), the STG-45 assault rifle,
the
Pzf 150 AT weapon, and Nipolit formed disc grenades.

Reliant on horse drawn vehicles for resupply.

The British were reliant on Americans for resupply.

The reality is that Germany was a resource poor nation that had only
forrest and coal and horse drawn logistics was all that was possible
withou access to cheap steel and oil.

In the meantime the British were Lording it up secure in the monopoly
and control they had of the the rerources of their colonies oil,
rubber, tin, manganese, nickel, chromium, tungsten, steel etc. They
forced boer familes intio concentration camps where they died of
disease and poor food to secure yet more colonies, they helped Turks
to invade Bulgaria and Just to swipe at the Russians who were heling
their christian allies and all sorts of excuses to cut down anyone
that might one day rival them by fair means.


The most shocking thing for most British soldiers when they closed
the Falaise gap was to discover that most German army units
were totally reliant on horse and cart to deliver supplies
from the railhead. Every British Infantry division had been
motorised since 1945 and they also realised that while the
SS might be well supplied with weapons and material
the average Wermacht soldier had to walk into battle on his
own two legs, was armed with the 5 shot bolt action
Karabiner 98k rifle of 1898 vintage and WW1 designed
hand grenades.


The Panzershreck was of course inspired
by the Bazooka

The Bazooka was a miserable weapon, panzerschreck adressed its
weaknesses. Allied soldiers in Normany had to use captured
panzerschreks and panzerfausts becuase the bazooka and the infinetely
more miserable PIAT were so ineffective.

The Panzerfaust was however a very effective weapon that owes nothing
to the bazooka. In its ultimate form the reloadable Panzerfaust 250
it was the basis of the RPG-7. A weapon more memorable and usefull
than the clumsy, bulky and awkward bazooka.



Had they managed to survive into 1945 without being Nuked
the Germans would have been facing large numbers
of M-26 and Centurion battle tanks which were
superior to anything they had

The more advanced panther tanks and their new schmalturm turrets had
gyro-stabalised turrets, 88mm cannon and stereoscopic range finders so
they would have matched the newer UK and USA tanks.


and fleets of the new US and
British jet fighters. Germany was on the wrong side of the
arms production curve from 1942 onwards. There was no
other way to go than down.

You've been around long enough to know that German arms production
peaked in 1944.


The Germans and allies were well matched intellectually. The Germans
lagged in some areas and lead in some. In the end they, and the axis,
were defeated by far superior resources: the USA, UK, Australia,
Canada, NZ, Soviet Union.

This nazi sorcer stuff is almost as much nonsense as the Area 51 and
Philidelpahia experiment nonsense. I say almost as much becuase theor
possibly were some type of VTOL and lenticular vehicle research work
using normal aerodynamic principles.



Keith