Where would Germany have set up natural salt dome storage?
Where they tried and failed.
Good alloys require the right materials - Germany lacked access to many of them, especially after Turkey stopped Chromium exports.
The Japanese found a way to make armor plate without chromium.
Even with high octane fuels, the DB, Junkers and BMW engines for the same watts output were still about ~200 kg heavier than RR, Bristol, or Pratt equivalents with all the bells and whistles. That cuts into airframe mass. Japanese engines were about 100 kg lighter than the Wally equivalents. That goes into alloy blocks and that means steels.
High temperature steels were a problem for Japan. They used a substitute (copper) and solved it.
Same again.
High-octane fuels never reached the Luftwaffe in significant amounts as they did for the Allies. How much more power can be coaxed from the same piston engines with 100 octane fuel than 85 octane fuel?
They do not do the work needed. Goes directly to incompetence.
FuG 25 IFF systems, ZG 1229 nightsights, Z3 computers, etc.
SCR 595 used by the USAAF in Europe and its British (They invented it.) version ARI 5025 was goofproof, simpler and was not as prone to false radar hits because of an amplification failure. The USN already had one of their own, but it was error prone and untrustworthy as the FuG 25 and for exactly the same reasons. Discriminator was prone to false hits.
ZG 1229 night-sights
American Rifleman | A Look Back at the M1 Carbine | Night ...
It worked.
Why do you believe this...?
Because *that* wouldn't be an automatic target
Why should it be? Does one understand how easy it was for the Russians to camouflage their pipelines across Poland into East Germany and how hard it was for the USAF to map them in the 1950s? Only discovered by accident.
Swept-wing aircraft along with most first-gen postwar fighters would like a word.
Theodore van Karman and "Kelly" Johnson and Ed Heinemann.
They were among the first to incorporate hydrodynamics and sound dampening systems into ship designs (making the tiles stick for the latter proved very difficult though). What are your thoughts on the role that Type XXI submarines had in spurring the GUPPY project along with the designs of Tench, Zulu, Gato, Whiskey, Romeo/Ming, and Balao class submarines?
Rubberized tiles that never stuck, incompetent understanding of the Gulf Stream, ignorance of the thermocline, and the crap Type XXI subs that showed the Americans what not to do with GUPPY? Like build battery cells that could only be serviced by a crewman shuffling along on his belly on a cat-crawl one dropped tool away from a discharge and a chlorine gas release or hydrogen ignition event? Those deathtraps?
Speer et al, for better or worse (and sometimes inappropriately), being acknowledged for his ability to keep the German economy running despite constant metallic rain?
Speer was a liar, a conman, the Fuchida of Germany. How "much" credit or blame depends on a lot of scholarship. But his contribution to the overall incompetence was a lot like Guderian's. The man was a self promoter more than the real deal in true effectiveness like Henry Kaiser or Gladeon Barnes.
Okay, so the slave labor and murder factories and incompetent use of available industrially skilled worker manpower hours is an agreement, that the Germans were unable to use human resources properly.
If you want to compete on the world stage, go continental or go home.
Figure out Mahan, do trade trade, not fight fight, or DIE.
Japan was stopped in her tracks with the destruction of her fleet at Midway. She also had far fewer materials and industrial base than the Allies but was grossly underestimated by them for various reasons. Had she attacked the USSR in winter of 1941 in full force instead of the Allies it is possible the Russians might have been forced to come to the table.
Shoot Stalin and then fight on, Rodina. Nothing was going to stop the Berlin Maniac from murdering Russians and other peoples
except the Red Army in Berlin. Or a FATMAN dropped on it.
Please stop confusing ethical failures for economic limitations.
If you do not value human beings in general, then African Americans, American women, Mexican Americans, Native Americans from the Sioux and Navajo nations, praise their efforts)... and JAPANESE Americans (really PRAISE these guys.) will be left aside and one limits one's economic efforts in ship-building, generating intelligence, farming, causing the B'Dienst and the Japanese Signals Service to tear their hair out, and in general overall economic activity===> especially in feeding and supplying the Red Army, so those guys can put an end to the Berlin Maniac and his monstrous regime.
That is the moral vision applied to war M79.
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