Do 335 Replica?

The war would simply have gone on longer.

Fighter technologies would possibly have advanced even quicker, though.

Amazing isn’t it? the fastest progress in technological abilty always happens when men are trying to find more efficient ways of killing each other.
That is another of the many aircraft from that period I would love to see fly along with the Bf 110, He162 and Ju 88

I think we would have developed jets as well if the war had gone on longer. I know we already had memteors in service but maybe more squadrens of them and maybe even if it had gone on long enough the vampire.

I’d never take on Russia……..

……….I was watching a programme the other week that said Hitler planned the invasion of Russia before even starting on operation Sealion

The German’s didn’t have any airbourne strategic offensive capability. Safe from attack, allied factories could just keep turning out machines.

If, however, the Germans had pushed relatively simple weapons like the photocell-triggered oblique mortar into widespread service prior to D-Day then they may well have made daylight strategic bombing unsustainable. Since this sort of system ‘merely’ requires a head-on attack rather below the victim’s altitude, it might well have been effective with poorly trained fighter crews.

Its hard to imagine a senario (from the safety of sixty years hindsight) in which the Nazi’s could have won after the attack on the USSR. If nothing else, the Nazi state would probably have collapsed economically.

I’ve no doubt that no Nazi weapon (except an atomic bomb) could have stopped the defeat of Nazism. What interests me is what would have happened if sufficient V1s backed up by jet fighters and bombers had been able to stop D-Day taking place in June 44? We might have ended up with Stalin reaching the Rhine before us. (apologies for going off topic)

The war would simply have gone on longer.

Fighter technologies would possibly have advanced even quicker, though.

iirc, the peak month for WWII aircraft production in German controlled territories was November 1944 (Green’s “Warplanes of the Third Reich”). If true, pretty amazing considering the degree of disruption to that bombing did to infrastructure.

Ignoring opinions of the Nazi’s grasp of strategy etc, I guess the Luftwaffe was defeated by attrition and the allies’ strategic campaign against fuel production and distribution.

Amazing though they were, the failure to bring technological jumps like the Me262 into substancial service was not the issue.

I’ve no doubt that no Nazi weapon (except an atomic bomb) could have stopped the defeat of Nazism. What interests me is what would have happened if sufficient V1s backed up by jet fighters and bombers had been able to stop D-Day taking place in June 44? We might have ended up with Stalin reaching the Rhine before us. (apologies for going off topic)

I think that the Allies would have won anyway through sheer weight of productivity (in the West) and force of numbers (the East). But if the V1s and Me262s had been in widespread use to disrupt the build-up to D-Day, history might have been different.

iirc, the peak month for WWII aircraft production in German controlled territories was November 1944 (Green’s “Warplanes of the Third Reich”). If true, pretty amazing considering the degree of disruption to that bombing did to infrastructure.

Ignoring opinions of the Nazi’s grasp of strategy etc, I guess the Luftwaffe was defeated by attrition and the allies’ strategic campaign against fuel production and distribution.

Amazing though they were, the failure to bring technological jumps like the Me262 into substancial service was not the issue.

Probably 😮 😮 😮 Mark

I think that the Allies would have won anyway through sheer weight of productivity (in the West) and force of numbers (the East). But if the V1s and Me262s had been in widespread use to disrupt the build-up to D-Day, history might have been different.

Luckily for us it was all too little, too late.

What would have ahppened if the war had gone on any longer. Would those have been used in greater numbers? or even been used at all?

Yes, You’re probably right there Ollie………….mind you, if they didn’t overengineer things they were probably put up against a wall and shot 😮 Mark

I read that workers at a Hamburg submarine building yard who cut corners were publicly beheaded with an axe if they did not carry out welding properly. When you think what the Axis were using at the end of the war you can see how advanced they were: ballistic and cruise missiles, TV guided ASMs, primitive guided AAMs, jet and rocket fighters, assault rifles, helicopters. Luckily for us it was all too little, too late.

True. Everything the Germans did was great, very good quality just not enough. If they could have churned the stuff out at the rate the Russians did and still at the same quantity we would have lost.
And America just pinches ideas from us.

Ive always felt the Germans over engineered everything, the Japenese did not build them well enough and we just kept it simple and won the war.

Yes, You’re probably right there Ollie………….mind you, if they didn’t overengineer things they were probably put up against a wall and shot 😮 Mark

Ive always felt the Germans over engineered everything, the Japenese did not build them well enough and we just kept it simple and won the war.

I think you’ll find that the reason that Japan are leading in electronics techonology is because the post war government pumped the money given to rebuild the country into developing an electronics industry…

Oh Yes…..I never thought of that [how dozy can I get – I think I really am tired] Perhaps I should go home now 😀 Mark 😀 😀 😀

I totaly agree with you there. We won with sheer guts and not alot else.

Given Japan’s current status when it comes to electronical devices etc……I’m supprised that they didn’t win the “race” to build the worlds first jet fighter…….

……as for Germany, they are also extremely smart over there………they very nearly won the war so many times it is unbelievable………I honestly think that we only won the Battle of Britain because of Good leadership in Fighter Command, damn fine fighter pilots, Several “silly” mistakes made by the Nazi high command and sheer luck on our part………… 😉 Mark 😀 😀 😀

Yes. What would have happened if they had got the me262 into serive when they said, how about the Flitzer. Maybe if the japenese had sorted out ther jet planes.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it????? 😀 Mark 😀 😀 😀

I also find it amasing some of the deigns that where close to flying.