World War II without German Rocket program

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When the Soviet made their first jet engines, they were copies of the german designs with better materials.

But still were not very good.

Lucky they got some Derwents and Nenes from the UK to copy instead.

The only German design that had legs turned into the turbo prop for the Bear, so long legs indeed
That's comparing apples to oranges; the Nene was a post war design, the German war designs were designed to be under their potential to rush them into service. The Derwent was equivalent to the German Class II engines weren't ready in time and IIRC designed around the idea that they wouldn't have the necessary metals to make them ideal, while the British ones were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Derwent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_HeS_011

In fact the HeS 011 was lighter and more powerful, so I think it would have been better than the Derwent, but the scaled up Nene was given to the Soviets, so it didn't make sense to develop the HeS 011 when the Nene was dropped into their lap all ready to go. The Derwent V was a smaller version of the Nene after that was developed, not an evolution of the Derwent, but lumped into the same family and sold to the Soviets.
 
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