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![]() "Denyav" wrote in message ... And everyone knows Germany's windtunnel data on the swept-wing (in all configurations) was far more valuable than anything the Allies had under development. I'm surprised how stupid you are to mention that at Well,not only swept wing but also swing wing concept too. The swing wing concept was first advanced by Barnes Wallis. He proposed a swing wing aircraft in the immediate post war period long before the German design work was available. Keith |
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arndt writes "Keith Willshaw" wrote in message .. . By late 1940 Britain alone was outproducing Germany in terms of most major military systems despite a much smaller population and economy, In 1940, you ditched all your equipment on the beaches of Dunkirk and had little more than the Home Guard to protect you from invasion. And yet within a few months we had thirty divisions tooled up and ready. (Where *was* that German invasion? Oh, right, too scared of the Royal Navy to come across. Imagine Eisenhower trying to plan D-Day, with the major British ports unusable because of enemy bombing and shelling, Kriegsmarine units operating freely in the Channel, and over a tenth of the invasion shipping sunk as it was mustering...) Your armor was garbage just like your ships Ah, yes, those inferior ships. The ones that either sank the Kriegsmarine or sent it cowering to port. and the Kreigsmarine only needed around 300 U-boats to choke your little nation to death WITHOUT a need to invade. So why didn't they do it? Oh, yeah, they couldn't. You brag about production while accepting massive handouts from the US that saved your sorry ass... pardon me for laughing my ass off! Meanwhile, the Germans nobly ignored the tank factories of Czechoslovakia, the arms works of Liege, the mines and forges of France...? ALL Germans would agree with you there... still they did launch the world's greatest land invasion in history and would have made it to Moscow had they not been bogged down in the earlier offensive in the Balkans bailing out the Italians. Napoleon did better - he actually *took* Moscow. Still didn't win him the war, though. -- He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar I:2 Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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Remember the "Bismark"? or the "Tirpitz"? or any other German
ship of WWII? That little Navy with "garbage" for ships sank virtually all of them. And, despite your parroting of Nazi propaganda, the UK was never in danger of "choking". Also note that the UK produced virtually all of its own aircraft and ships. Please tell of your great success with your vital shipping. Exactly how many MILLIONS of tons did you lose to German surface ships, raiders, S-boats, and U-boats? Hitler was the one who gave the orders that relegated the surface fleet to the dustbin; however, ISTR that the Kreigsmarine evacuation of East Prussia in 1945 was the greatest evacuation in history. It was accomplished with what was left of the surface fleet and roughly over 2 million German citizens and soldiers were evacuated- which makes the paltry 300,000+ evacuated at Dunkirk a joke by comparison. Then the Fuhrer attacked Russia - STOOPID ALL Germans would agree with you there... still they did launch the world's greatest land invasion in history and would have made it to Moscow had they not been bogged down in the earlier offensive in the Balkans bailing out the Italians. So you think wars are won by huge defeats?? In the winter of 1941 it wasn't a huge defeat. The defeat came at Kursk years later. As stated earlier the Germans would have won in Russia had they started their offensive in the Spring instead of the summer. They wouldn't have bogged down in the mud and they wouldn't have been scarce of winter clothing. Russia wouldn't have had the time to fully mobilize for the counter attack. Then after defeat, your VICTORIOUS and SUPERIOR armies raped the entire German nation for all of its technology ensuring postwar victories without any real effort on your part to develop them yourself... in areas so unimportant as say... aviation and space technology... just to name two! The USA had better jet aircraft in 1945 than Germany did The late model Meteor was faster than the Me-262 and far more reliable. The Germans never did get their engines to work for more than 25 hours while the Rolls Royce engines in the Meteor were good for 2000 Huh, really? That's why the US engineers asked the GERMANS for advice on the future of jet engine development. The Germans told them axial-flow was the future even though the US/UK chose to toy around with centrifugal dead-end jet engines for years afterwards and even still continued producing PROP AIRCRAFT! The Germans in 1945 had the world's greatest engine the DB 109-016 @ 28,652 lb st and the world's first afterburning engine the Jumo 004E. Of course Germany lack the strategic materials necessary for higher quality coonstruction of jet engines but they also had synthetics developed under a time of round-the-clock bombing; nevertheless, THEY introduced two jet fighters, a jet bomber, a rocket figheter, and had two supersonic designs under construction- the Lp DM-1 demonstrator for the Lp P.13 and the DFS 346 (which flew Mach 1 in the USSR postwar). Whatever you are smoking must be *really* good stuff. Facts bother you? Not surprising... Germany never managed to build a succesful heavy bomber, the USA had 3 types in service and the B-36 under development That's Hitler's fault for cancelling any four-engined type. Germany could have built the Me-264, Ju 390, and a wide range of jet bomber projects that HEAVILY influenced postwar designs. If you think not then buy "Luftwaffe Secret Projects, Strategic Bombers 1939-1945". The NACA in the USA was alreay working on swept wing technology in 1945\ And everyone knows Germany's windtunnel data on the swept-wing (in all configurations) was far more valuable than anything the Allies had under development. I'm surprised how stupid you are to mention that at all. Von Braun acknowledged that all his work was built on the foundations laid by Goddard. ... and Oberth, who proposed rocket artillery as far back as WW1! The rocket engines used in the X planes post war were designed by Goddard's team and were far BETTER and more reliable than those in the Me-163 Yet the US stole the X-15 configuration/concept from the Peenemunde EMW A6 and the US NEVER fielded a rocket fighter, making the Me-163 Komet unique in air combat history. And utterly useless. It was an idiotic design. Which as an interceptor could climb at 16,000 fpm and was armed with two 30mm cannon. It wasn't a solution to win the air war only intended as a point-defence interceptor. It made some kills and a place in history. What exactly did the British Meteor do besides swat some V-1s? Then there is the fiasco that was the German nuclear project. Which is the entire basis for the US rush to develop it's own bomb. Germans got a bad deal with bad graphite- thank God for that. Yet the Germans also were smart enough to realize that nuclear power could be used for other purposes too: The Germans never achieved criticality in a reactor. Due to bad graphite which was rejected as a moderator. If they would have gotten good graphite AND official backing by Hitler AND some investment AND an order to produce the weapon... then, well history might be different. Germany never had a true atomic bomb program- just war research. radiological weapons, a nuclear power reactor, and for use in submarines long before Nautilus was built. They also realized than an atom bomb coulb be mounted on a missile and launched from sea (Prufstand XII container). The myth of German technical superiority is just that. No, hundreds of thousands of captured technical documents stored at Wright Field in 1946 prove you wrong. The US Govt even was "low" enough to sell non-classified technical documents to other nations for cash- including the USSR! And if German technology is just a myth then why is 85% of America's arsenal derived from German weapons from WW1 and WW2? Why do we even use their tactics and wear their helmets? Rob You are a loon. No, history doesn't bother me like it does you. You are the loon that keeps trying to assert that the US ruled forever and invented everything. You can't admit that most of our modern a/c, designs, and space program came from the Reich. It's a fact pal and the German scientists were made US citizens. Why don't you talk to them about "whose" technology was stolen. Al Minyard Rob |
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![]() "robert arndt" wrote No, history doesn't bother me like it does you. You are the loon that keeps trying to assert that the US ruled forever and invented everything. You can't admit that most of our modern a/c, designs, and space program came from the Reich. It's a fact pal and the German scientists were made US citizens. Why don't you talk to them about "whose" technology was stolen. If the Germans had such superior: planes tanks armor guns helmets Generals leadership etc, etc... Why did they lose? Pete I'm sure you can pull out some 'facts' that show their bayonets were better "Fine German cold rolled steel!" |
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No, history doesn't bother me like it does you. You are the loon that
keeps trying to assert that the US ruled forever and invented everything. You can't admit that most of our modern a/c, designs, and space program came from the Reich. It's a fact pal and the German You are forgetting something,in US image is eveything,on other hand in central European cultures substance and thinking are highly valued commodities. The most powerful image maker of US is also most powerful weapon of US,namely Hollywood. But in an era when the knowledge and information are available to almost everyone at real time and almost at no cost ,everybody can see that the "King is naked" in spite of rhe efforts of image makers. Of course,the similarities with Guetenberg's printing press are purely coincidental. |
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The Germans never achieved criticality in a reactor.
Yeah right,I am sure you have never heard location names like Klein-Machnow,Lichterfelde,Pilsen,Kummersdorfthe places that even Hitler's personal bodyguard Engel was not allowed to enter and escort Hitler inside. If you think Germans never achived criticality then you must ask US government "where Hiroshima and Nagazaki bombs came from?" |
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Remember the "Bismark"? or the "Tirpitz"? or any other German
ship of WWII? That little Navy with "garbage" for ships sank virtually all of them. And, despite your parroting of Nazi propaganda, the UK was never in danger of "choking". Also note that the UK produced Do you remember PoW and Repulse or Yamato ? After Mitchell demo it was clear that the fate of Battleship was sealed but all navies and Admirals continued to order them,they were their "showboats". I am sure if US had used battleships the way they supposed to be used,like Brits,Germans and Japsen and forgat new threats, above list might include names like New Jersey etc. |
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