-Managed R & D much better. I've heard of NAzi Germany planning to bobm England with MOLTEN CHOCOLATE for God's sake. The Maus and Dora and stuff could go too, maybe even the Panther. They should have put Panzer Glass in their Messcherscmitt airplanes earlier as well. There's plenty of projects that needed to go, the Sturmtigers, et cetera...
Absolutely. So many fighter, bomber, & tank projects were ridiculous. (Ju-88 & He-177
dive bombers?


)
-Had waited for the Russian winter to pass and had delayed moving into the USSR.
An extremely bad idea for Germany.

It would mean SU had many more T-34s (&
Heer had quite enough problems with the handfuls they did meet). Had Hitler not meddled, winter would never have been an issue...
And the key for a successful Barbarossa is to have it earlier, not later- plus once it starts, give all four Panzer groups the objective of Moscow.
Agreed.
-Used all these funds freed up from ridiculous R & D to go into atomic bombs and jet aircraft.
I'm dubious the German bomb would ever have appeared, & jets weren't strictly necessary. They're sexy, but better management of resources & better application of them (just a for instance, allowing Ju-88 intruder raids against Bomber Command & Coastal Command bases

) makes jets unnecessary.
Tigers were probably needed too...
Not. The resources used for them would've been better applied to a simplified
Pz 5(on
Pz 4 running gear, ideally). (I've always liked the idea of a
Pz 5 with 88mm L/71...)
I also think that the V-2's weren't such a bad idea (though they should've been used against Allied logistics, not cities).
They were a terrible idea. They absorbed enormous amounts of engineering talent & capacity, & $$$. The Germans could have built 10 jets & at least 100 V-1s for every V-2. Nor were V-2s able to hit anything smaller than cities... I wonder if V-1s could've been fitted with pattern-running systems, like FAT used, to make them tactical weapons: RATO (to start the PJ) off the back of trucks or converted
Pz 1s. Or against BC/CC bases...
