German VT ammo

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WI Germans develop VT (proximity) fuses for their AAA? If deployed fairly early and in sufficient numbers to cause RAF hard times how does their bomber doctrine develops? Trying to bomb from even higher altitudes?

I doubt it would be a war-winning weapon but it could give Germany enough breathing space to keep worse bombing from their industrial area to.... do what?
 

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Not sure if this was asked but anyway.....

WI Germans develop VT (proximity) fuses for their AAA? If deployed fairly early and in sufficient numbers to cause RAF hard times how does their bomber doctrine develops? Trying to bomb from even higher altitudes?

I doubt it would be a war-winning weapon but it could give Germany enough breathing space to keep worse bombing from their industrial area to.... do what?

It would increase losses, but it wouldn't stop the Bombing Offensive from gutting the Luftwaffe and the Oil industries.

What it would, however, imply is a much more tech capable Reich.
 

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Not sure if this was asked but anyway.....

WI Germans develop VT (proximity) fuses for their AAA? If deployed fairly early and in sufficient numbers to cause RAF hard times how does their bomber doctrine develops? Trying to bomb from even higher altitudes?

I doubt it would be a war-winning weapon but it could give Germany enough breathing space to keep worse bombing from their industrial area to.... do what?

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=68932
Read this link, it might help with your idea.
 
Not sure if this was asked but anyway.....

WI Germans develop VT (proximity) fuses for their AAA? If deployed fairly early and in sufficient numbers to cause RAF hard times how does their bomber doctrine develops? Trying to bomb from even higher altitudes?

I doubt it would be a war-winning weapon but it could give Germany enough breathing space to keep worse bombing from their industrial area to.... do what?
Sorry about taking so long to reply, I've got really behind.

COULD they build them? Building a radar set that will a) fit into an AAA shell and then b) survive firing in one, is a HUGE technical problem for the time. I can hardly believe the Brits and the US managed it. Could the Germans have done it?
 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq96-1.htm
They can be jammed, so the Germans might not be aided for very long by developing this device. They were still working on it by the end of the war OTL and had started research in the early 1930's. It would take a miracle for the Germans to get it by their own research, and if they did it would take resources away from another project/weapon system, so that means the German war effort suffers in another area. Add in the jamming factor and the weapon isn't worth it. The contact fuze would be much more cost effective, read the link to see what advantage it would have over the proxy fuze.
 
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