Effects of a Functional "Haunebu"

Effects of a Functioning "Haunebu"?

  • Large Effect

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • Medium Effect

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Small Effect

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • No Effect

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Surely, you must be joking

    Votes: 11 64.7%

  • Total voters
    17
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Let's say, for the purposes of this question, the construction and development of the Haunebu was a real and legitimate part of the Wunderwaffe Progam

If it's made functional by 1944 or 45', how might this effect the outcome of WWII?

Long term effects on Aviation? (Operation Paper Clip?)
 
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Well obviously the British would have been obliged to deploy the Rocket ship Anastasia under the command of Colonel Dare and Group Captain Digby - really wanted to keep its existence a secret through.....shame

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Let's say, for the purposes of this question, the construction and development of the Haunebu was a real and legitimate part of the Wunderwaffe Progam

If it's made functional by 1944 or 45', how might this effect the outcome of WWII?

Long term effects on Aviation? (Operation Paper Clip?)

The War ends a few months earlier, and resources dedicated to this... thing are resources taking away from proven weapons actually good at killing Allied soldiers. Someone ends up with an awesome centerpiece for their aviation museum.
 
Well obviously the British would have been obliged to deploy the Rocket ship Anastasia under the command of Colonel Dare and Group Captain Digby - really wanted to keep its existence a secret through.....shame

Ahem! Official Secrets Act. You will be contacted. Probably by a Double O.

In the interim, what does functional mean? What does it do exactly?
 
Excellent question indeed. Other then as an escape craft for Hitler and his cronies to fly to a secret moon base, or something equally improbable.

Well, look at the concept drawing. There are clearly guns on it

Common sense says functional probably means usage in air to air combat.
 
Well, look at the concept drawing. There are clearly guns on it

Common sense says functional probably means usage in air to air combat.

Honestly? I just don't see this thing being anything other then bait for a P-51 squadron. But the same applies to basically any German aircraft by the point this would be reaching combat.
 
Assuming we're not throwing out the laws of physics or giving the Germans engineering skills on par or better than we have now, that... thing... would at best have the aerodynamics of an unholy offspring of a helicopter and a B2. I'd give it a good chance of never being shot down by simple virtue of every craft crashing within five minutes of takeoff.

Needless to say, even if by some miracle a flight worthy version produced it will only hasten the Nazi defeat due to squandered resources, though it may give any surviving Luftwaffe officers decent grounds for an insanity plea at TTL's version of the Nuremberg trials.
 
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Here in the Shire, we have developed the Hannebu back into the Glocke. It works well for triple C, but doesn't do a thing for shoot 'em ups. I have an electric version on my front door.

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Assuming we're not throwing out the laws of physics or giving the Germans engineering skills on par or better than we have now, that... thing... would at best have the aerodynamics of an unholy offspring of a helicopter and a B2. I'd give it a good chance of never being shot down by simple virtue of every craft crashing within five minutes of takeoff.

Needless to say, even if by some miracle a flight worthy version produced it will only hasten the Nazi defeat due to squandered resources, though it may give any surviving Luftwaffe officers decent grounds for an insanity plea at TTL's version of the Nuremberg trials.

Well that's the crux, if this thing is bound by the laws of aerodynamics and 1940s engineering its a deathtrap. If as is often implied it possessed alien technology, well then it could do nigh on anything you fee like havng it do...
 
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