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Not quite a Nazi fanboy, but the secondary character in “The Foresight War” is an advisor to the Wehrmacht with future knowledge.
AHC: post-1942 Luftwaffe 'sanity options'
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Not quite a Nazi fanboy, but the secondary character in “The Foresight War” is an advisor to the Wehrmacht with future knowledge.
Centimetric radars need magnetron, expecially if you reverse engineer them from Wallied ones. But Wallied cavity magnetrons were made of natural magnet, and Germany had none: electromagnetic ones required re-design and were more expensive.
This is a pre-1942 POD IMHO.
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A large reason the V1 did less damage than expected was the use of the XXX Deception system to convince the Germans to move the aim point into empty country side. The first few months most hit inside London. After the deception op succeeded most fell on near empty farm land. Unfortunately the same could not be done for Antwerp & that city took a beating in the winter of 1944-1945. Lots of civilian deaths, military deaths, and industrial operations disrupted. Fortunately the port operations were unhindered.
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& the triggers were triple redundant. Parsons was not taking any chance of a malfunction. Triple wiring for the electric detonation circuits. There was also a radar proximity fuze and a timer trigger. Activated when the bomb was released. After take off Parsons and his technicians tested every circuit, carried spare initiators, the timer-barometer-& proximity fuze. If the airfract were shot down Parsons probably would have detonated it himself. His primary flight station was in the bomb bay, secondary was the compartment adjacent. That bomb was going to detonate, period.
The Japanese tried to intercept the B29s flying high altitude weather recon & photo recon. They failed. It was difficult to intercept those at medium altitudes due to the speed.
marathag
Banned
Magnetrons had a brief popularity for Military Radar use, before other more efficient(and capable of higher frequencies, and being easily tunable) tubes replaced them, leading to where the most common use of Magnetrons is making water molecules shake in microwave ovens.
Want to know more?
https://www.radartutorial.eu/18.explanations/ex19.en.html
marathag
Banned
'But muh Ta-154 und Me-163!', cry the Wehraboos
that's when you point out that they weren't stopping the Spitfire and Lightning high altitude photo-recon craft overflying the Reich daily in 1944
Somebody mentioned having Galland replace Goering. Admittedly, the same person also recommended putting Speer in charge of production sooner, which seems unlikely to be of benefit insofar as at least the present historical consensus is that Speer's biggest talent was taking credit for other people's work. Still, I'm less familiar with Galland's current reputation. Further, while a lot of Luftwaffe problems were unsolvable, Goering does seem to have committed some unforced errors, so replacing him with someone else might well have improved things slightly. Does anybody have a good sense as to whether Galland in particular would actually have been a substantially better choice?
thaddeus
Donor
this was the type of scenario, and certainly many more on the Eastern Front, that my speculation was to deal with?
As it can be verified quickly, Anglo-American piston engines in service from late 1942 on were superior to German engines, and WAllies kept that advantage until the end. In better part of 20th century, engine was a heart of a fighter/interceptor.
That Luftwaffe didn't fielded a piston engine with a 2-stage supercharger before 1945 was a German mistake, and their only; 2-stage superchargers were a known quantity by 1930s in UK and Germany. A fighter with 1-stage supercharged engine will have hard time to intercept a recon that has engine with two stages of superchaging (= mostly mid- and late war Spitfires, Mosquitoes etc, plus any turboed aircraft of the time).
Japanese were in the same position.
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Later in the war what the Germans needed was higher octane fuel(av) to allow a higher compression ratio and more powerful engines. .
BlackDragon98
Banned
Thats partially untrue, because in Mano Ziegler's book Rocket Fighter, a rotte of Me 163 almost intercepted a P-38 recon, but the Me 163 suffered some technical difficulties and was forced to break off.
But for the most part, the Ta 154 and Me 163 were useless.
Ho 229, He 219, and Ta 152 were much better.
Supercharged engine requires low compression ratio - talk 6:1 on the Merlins and Griffons, Soviet even went to 5.5:1 with AM-42. Most of the other engines were between 6.5:1 and 7.5:1. Germans did have C3 as a high octane fuel, used on BMW 801D engines for example, plus there is a way around with using water/alcohol injection to forestall detonation problems when 87 oct fuel was used (as it was the case on late-war DB 605s, for example).
Any time the Germans went from low-ish compression ratio upwards, it took them 6-18 months to cure reliability problems, and engines were still barely making same power when compared with best WAllied engines (and usualy were making less power at altitude vs. WAllied best engines).
The best performing German hi-alt engine used in ww2, in 1945, was using 87 oct fuel.
And you never should. PPP is based around free labour and consumer goods with a few curious assumptions about how workers should subsist.
While the United States closely resembled the model for PPP 1932-1946, Germany didn’t.
After 1942 US and German commodities (Marxist sense) entered a period of incommensurability anyway, so comparing Rm or grammes of Auschwitz 1 bread to USD is perverse in a purely scholarly sense.
%GDP/capita measures aren’t any better as GDP is closely aligned with assumptions that didn’t exist in the Soviet Union or Germany, even though they were states where wage labour existed as the determinate labour form (especially in camps) and small groups of people controlled investment of social worth for profit.
Even then these expenditures aren’t convertible. You can’t take a capacity to make atomic weapons and turn it into a universal health care system.
Many of the core assumptions of marginalist economics are those of a model whose known deficiencies compared to historical human societies make its measures and claims ridiculous for certain historical analyses. Political economists fare a bit better.
So the problem is not PPP, but (neo)classic economics: tell that to the CIA, they use PPP for North Korea.
Also, I prefer not to use Marxist analysis in macroeconomic analysis.
Anyway, that is exactly what I mean. Saying "Aggregate costed X RM, so Y $" means nothing, probably Aggregate in the USA would cost a tiny fraction of the estimated German "price".
What would you use to compare Germany, USSR and the USA in IIWW? Input-output model?
BTW, it is macro- and micro-economics: 'cause it is a measure contest
A better question is: why Germany never switched to tubes? Was it a technical problem as with magnetron or an operative one? EDIT: of cours it was brain-drain...
Again: why?
It always shock me how wide the gap is between the myth of Uber-teknological-Nazi-Cermany and the reality.
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But you appear to want to contradict my argument, not support it with further evidence.
Comparisons between Germany and the USSR and Germany and the United States were made empirically in the stupidity of the consumption of useful things.
Comparing the composition of value between the USSR and United States in the period is merely stupid.
Why was the BF109 so slow compared with the P51?
I concur with you that PPP (and neoclassical conomics in general) is a very limited model, but it would be better than simply compare RM to $.
So you do not compare at all?
... I don't even understand why the comparison...
There's a limit to what an engine can do, otherwise we could stuck a Merlin in a Sopwith Camel. The Me-109 first flew in 1935, which means pretty much all of it's fuselage, wings and tail were designed with early/mid 1930s knowledge of aerodinamics, structural design and manuractoring techniques. The P-51 was built in 1940, befiniting from all the advances made in the late 30s, such as the Meredith Efect. This, plus improved materials and construction techniques, gave it a huge head start.