Hey, *someone* has to try crazy ideas to find out what works and what doesn’t! Lol
New_girl2022 on
At what cost …. 2 billion to be precise, in 1945 dollars.
hplcr on
*Oppenheimer enters the chat*
*Deploys Portable Sun*
*Says something pithy*
*Refuses to elaborate any further.*
*Leaves.*
cams0400 on
The risk was a calculated one but boy were they bad at maths
Edit: obviously not talking about the portable sun
SPECTREagent700 on
It is kinda funny how depictions of the Manhattan Project often make it seem like there was race against the Nazis while in actuality the Nazis basically gave up trying to make a bomb in 1942 and weren’t ever really all that interested in it before then either.
TwistedPnis4567 on
Give the krauts some credit, they made the ballistic missile, the automatic rifle (debatable), lightning warfare, and the foundations of the jet-powered aircraft.
Allies still beat them in the technology department though.
Strong_Site_348 on
TBF the jet actually did work, even as designed, it just wasn’t finished yet and the Me 262 took priority. Simulations show that it would have been a very capable aircraft. It would have been an absolute menace if it was ever produced.
They would have lost the war, no doubt about it, but it was very much a superior design to anything else that flew during the war.
DRose23805 on
The jets worked, they just became operational too late to make a difference.
The rockets did work, but again mostly came too late. They were further hindered bybthe fact that virtually all of the German spies in England had been caught and turned, so all of the targeting information they sent to Germany was wrong.
The big guns tecnhically worked, but they were so big and immobile that they were destroyed by bombers.
The obsession with big tanks and many variants did help though. Simply put,mthe big monster tanks could barely move overland, if at all, few bridges could support them, and while few tank guns could harm them, planes could. Guns might not but bombs or napalm would take them out.
chrispln on
Tbf the allied side had plenty of self- sabotage projects themselves
Impratex on
Hitler when his engineers tell him that a 42069 ton flying amphibious tank with 30 quadruple naval guns able to hit the US west coast all the way from Germany while moving and able to reach 400km/h isn’t feasible and even if it were it would bankrupt the country for the next 100 years just from fuel costs (unbelievable)
RNG_pickle on
How dare you say the maus was a bad tank he was just special
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Portable Sun
(Works.)
Hey, *someone* has to try crazy ideas to find out what works and what doesn’t! Lol
At what cost …. 2 billion to be precise, in 1945 dollars.
*Oppenheimer enters the chat*
*Deploys Portable Sun*
*Says something pithy*
*Refuses to elaborate any further.*
*Leaves.*
The risk was a calculated one but boy were they bad at maths
Edit: obviously not talking about the portable sun
It is kinda funny how depictions of the Manhattan Project often make it seem like there was race against the Nazis while in actuality the Nazis basically gave up trying to make a bomb in 1942 and weren’t ever really all that interested in it before then either.
Give the krauts some credit, they made the ballistic missile, the automatic rifle (debatable), lightning warfare, and the foundations of the jet-powered aircraft.
Allies still beat them in the technology department though.
TBF the jet actually did work, even as designed, it just wasn’t finished yet and the Me 262 took priority. Simulations show that it would have been a very capable aircraft. It would have been an absolute menace if it was ever produced.
They would have lost the war, no doubt about it, but it was very much a superior design to anything else that flew during the war.
The jets worked, they just became operational too late to make a difference.
The rockets did work, but again mostly came too late. They were further hindered bybthe fact that virtually all of the German spies in England had been caught and turned, so all of the targeting information they sent to Germany was wrong.
The big guns tecnhically worked, but they were so big and immobile that they were destroyed by bombers.
The obsession with big tanks and many variants did help though. Simply put,mthe big monster tanks could barely move overland, if at all, few bridges could support them, and while few tank guns could harm them, planes could. Guns might not but bombs or napalm would take them out.
Tbf the allied side had plenty of self- sabotage projects themselves
Hitler when his engineers tell him that a 42069 ton flying amphibious tank with 30 quadruple naval guns able to hit the US west coast all the way from Germany while moving and able to reach 400km/h isn’t feasible and even if it were it would bankrupt the country for the next 100 years just from fuel costs (unbelievable)
How dare you say the maus was a bad tank he was just special