What if the germans...

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:30:48 -0000, "Keith Willshaw"
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"Bernardz" wrote in message
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The critical developments that Germany failed tomake IMHO
are less obvious large scale projects. A reliable proximity
fuse could have made allied aircraft losses much heavier.
Better attention to production factors in weapons design
could have radically improved productivity in the arms
plants.

Instead of sending so much money on V2 it could have been better spent
on air to air missiles or developing SAMs.


Air to air missiles only help if you can put fighters in the air
and given the scale of the task it seems unlikely that
SAM's would have been available in a timely manner or
in sufficient quantities and they would have been vulnerable
to jamming. These are actually the sort of complex
developments the Nazis went in for. Less radical
developments such as improved gyroscopic gunsights,
prosximity fuses and predictors were pursued by the
allies to great efect.


Keith

I get the distinct impression that many german projects were
designed to appeal to higher ups who really had no business making
such decisions. Continued design work on the H series of Battleships,
the V2 projects, etc.
But Keith is right-- imagine what would have happened if they'd had
one directing authority that could say: "Right. Let's pull all the
eggheads off this bloody stupid V2 project and put them on the
proximinty fuse. Those that can't do the fuse, send them to figure
out how to improve our production speed on vital components, etc."