Nazi Super Weapon - The Me-262

[OxQQme]

> "As every WWII geek has known since they were a child, if Hitler had just put the Me-262 into production as a fighter instead of as a bomber the allies would have been driven from the skies in 1944. The Nazis would have been triumphant and we’d all be living in The Man in the High Castle.

Fortunately this didn’t happen and today we’re……..um……..oh never mind.

>"The Me-262 had a good 100 mph advantage over the best piston engine fighters of the day. Its four 30 mm cannons could turn a B-17 into scrap metal in seconds. They were so fast that the B-17 gunners had a hard time even tracking them. The addition of air-to-air rockets (R4M) on later versions let the Me-262s attack from outside the range of the bombers’ guns.

>" Metallurgy hadn’t kept up with engine design and the prototype BMW 003 engines melted faster than Margaret Hamilton in a rainstorm. The improved Junkers Jumo 004 engines used on the production models just melted a little more slowly. The Jumos lasted maybe 10 hours before they turned into slag. If you really babied them you might get 25 flight hours before they melted down.

>" It was truly a triumph of German engineering. The F-86 and B-47 can trace their lineage back to the German research that built the Me-262. Thankfully it was never going to be a war-winning weapon for the Third Reich. Otherwise we might be ruled today by a temperamental demagogue fueled by hatred and delusions of grandeur, requiring constant praise and adulation lest anyone incur his wrath.

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https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/7/3/1675643/-Nazi-Super-Weapon-The-Me-262?detail=emaildkre

[Turbineguy]

1. Wot, wot?

"Otherwise we might be ruled today by a temperamental demagogue fueled by hatred and delusions of grandeur, requiring constant praise and adulation lest anyone incur his wrath."

Oh wait, never mind.

[progressoid]

3. Subtle huh?

[byronius]

2. Jagdpanther.

Jagdpanther

The ME 262 was extraordinarily advanced and was indeed a dangerous development rendered useless by Hitler's poor decision-making process (read: methamphetamine/nightshade combo administered daily by the good Dr. Morell -- thank you Dr. Morell for accidentally saving millions of lives with quack science).

However -- most serious super-weapon aficianados consider the Jagdpanther G-2 to be the real threat. It was a major leap in tank warfare, and only the limited numbers and its primary use on the Eastern Front against the new (American J. Walter Christie-designed) Russian T-tanks saved the Omaha landing from being pushed back into the sea. As it was, they gained a serious reputation during the Ardennes Offensive for general invulnerability.

Thanks to the mighty Eighth for bombing the crap out of German industry and making them unable to mass-produce more than the 415 made.

PS:

[BSdetect]

4. I think that invading the USSR, as it was known then, was a bigger mistake.

Not to mention declaring was on the USA.

But Hitler was also a drug addict, had a crap doctor and was paranoid. He suffered from delusions of grandeur and seized power illegally.

So not at all like drumph?