WI V2 programme stays in development phase

V-2 engines were dealing with much higher temperatures and used a lot more strategic heat resistance metals like Nickel.

Well I'll take your word on that.

As to the fuel types of the rockets, you have to walk before you can crawl, so the work done earlier enabled later, more advanced designs.

On that principle, did the development of jet engines begin in 1910 with Coanda?

Also you cannot simply divorce the overall ballistic missile systems package from the engine, as the engine is pointless without a means to actually deliver it.

We definitely can divorce the rocket engine from the V2s, which was a means to deliver an explosive, not an engine. We can do that because rocket engines went into other stuff than the V2, such as the Me 163, which had its own guidance device.
 

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Well I'll take your word on that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Technical_details


On that principle, did the development of jet engines begin in 1910 with Coanda?
Then we can go back to 900AD China for rocket engines :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_arrow

We definitely can divorce the rocket engine from the V2s, which was a means to deliver an explosive, not an engine. We can do that because rocket engines went into other stuff than the V2, such as the Me 163, which had its own guidance device.
If the V-2 is left alone in toto, that means there is a massive engineering staff and production effort, greater than that of the Manhattan Project actually in dollar value, available for other projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
The German V-weapons (V-1 and V-2) cost the equivalent of around USD $40 billion (2015 dollars), which was 50 percent more than the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb.
The V-1 component of that was 500 million RM, which was 1/6th of the v-1+v-2 projects. So assuming the V-1 still happens, that leaves 5/6ths of the above, i.e. $33.333 Billion in 2015 dollars, iirc 2.5 billion RM.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Technical_details



Then we can go back to 900AD China for rocket engines :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_arrow


If the V-2 is left alone in toto, that means there is a massive engineering staff and production effort, greater than that of the Manhattan Project actually in dollar value, available for other projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket

The V-1 component of that was 500 million RM, which was 1/6th of the v-1+v-2 projects. So assuming the V-1 still happens, that leaves 5/6ths of the above, i.e. $33.333 Billion in 2015 dollars, iirc 2.5 billion RM.
As noted By others these figures cannot be directly transferable, but they are truly astonishing.
This comes in at 12500 complete me-262's
 

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As noted By others these figures cannot be directly transferable, but they are truly astonishing.
This comes in at 12500 complete me-262's
Sure PPP isn't taken into account, nor can it truly be a great measure of cost given that Nazi Germany had weird measures of currency value by 1944.
 

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Based on the discussion from today a better way to spend the money would be on Sturmgewehrs and their ammo. The V-2 was approved by Hitler in late Summer 1943, so say he doesn't do that and instead orders those resources spent on mundane weapons like the StG44, which ironically ended it's combat trial problem in September 1943 when the V-2 decision was made. Say have him cancel V-2 development or at least not order it into production and order full speed ahead for the StG 44 based on it's positive combat trials with a fraction of the resources spent on the V-2 and you could well have heaps of StGs floating around by 1944. Not going to change the outcome of the war, but it would have been a far better way to spend the resources. Same with more FLAK and artillery.
 
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