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09 Jan 2009, 4:41 pm
The Tigers, yes. The 262 definitely, but they would have to developed it sometime around 1940 and the challenges to finding the necessary metals would still be a hurdle. The V-2 definitely. Their nuclear program however, was a bad joke. In order to conjure the possibility of it working staggers the imagination. Their basic science was flawed because they rejected "Jewish Physics". Their ability to gather the materials was non-existant. The funds necessary to push the technology wasn't there at all. Remember the Yanks spent something over a billion dollars (in 1940's currency) and committed huge amounts of resources just to get two functional bombs.
Over a billion in 1940... wow thats alot for that even if it was for the bomb...
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The Tigers, yes. The 262 definitely, but they would have to developed it sometime around 1940 and the challenges to finding the necessary metals would still be a hurdle. The V-2 definitely. Their nuclear program however, was a bad joke. In order to conjure the possibility of it working staggers the imagination. Their basic science was flawed because they rejected "Jewish Physics". Their ability to gather the materials was non-existant. The funds necessary to push the technology wasn't there at all. Remember the Yanks spent something over a billion dollars (in 1940's currency) and committed huge amounts of resources just to get two functional bombs.
Over a billion in 1940... wow thats alot for that even if it was for the bomb...
It was a huge effort, they built a processing plant in Tennessee USA (I believe) and then had to staff it with people sworn to secrecy, power it (it used as mush electricity as a town) and then process the plutonium. It's a great story, you should read up on it sometime. Of course nowadays the whole thing is non politically correct because of the guilt of using it on Japan. The first bomb was supposed to hit Berlin. THAT would make an interesting parallel history novel ! !
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12 Jan 2009, 8:07 pm
yes it was the 15
And the japanese got a copy of the 262. Funny how that technology spread around the world so quickly. Also funny how rarely we get credit for having invented it.
You did with the Meteor jet plane which was a British made jet fighter. The problem was that the idea of the sweep wing was better.
Thats why the HE-162 Komet Was slightly better that the 262 a delta wing design...
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Thanks JerryHatake for the FW-190 and JU-88 pictures. But I am referring to the Mistel guided munitions / parasite aircraft project. Which looks something like this:
Equivalent to a semi-guided missile. The bomber component's cockpit was replaced with a shaped warhead and when the fighter was attached on top, a fly-by-wire-like system allowed the pilot to operate both planes in unison.
They were used on the east front and after the d-day landings.
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Wow... thats by far the wierdest thing i have ever seen...
16 Jan 2009, 9:14 pm
actually the best help we got on fighting the ME 262 was,,, Adolf Hitler. The jet was designed to be a fighter, Hitler insisted it be made a bomber, so instead of an eagle, they got an aardvark...
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16 Jan 2009, 10:57 pm
I'm not sure it ever dropped any bombs. I think the Luftwaffe ignored Der Fuhrer's directive and stuck with the fighter design. Just shows that Hitler was no mad genius. He couldn't grasp the simple fact that the 262 could fly faster than other plane. He must have been Autistic or something ......
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