Re: SARA Replicating Nazi Mercury Levitation Unit


<ianparker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Summing up the tally of Teutonic prowess is as follows.
>
> Computers & cryptography- Years behind
> Other electronics - Considerably behind but not quite so dramatically
> Nuclear energy (bomb) - Years behind
> Jet aviation - Level

Ahead on airframe design but well behind in engine design.
At a time when British engines were conservatively rated at
250 hours between overhauls German engines were
struggling to reach lifetimes of 25 hours.


> Rockets - Ahead but V2 was still not that effective
> Unusual aircraft - Praiseworthy effort but never worked properly
>

Strategically it was a disaster. It absorbed vast resources to
little effect. The weapon produced was not only hopelessly
inaccurate but cost more to build than the value of the
damage it caused on impact and more workers died producing it
than people were killed at the target end.

> A lot of this was due to the fact that Germany undertook a major war
> without adaquate resources to advance over all fields and did not plan
> for a long war. A lot can be laid at the door of Herr Hitler who did
> not use the resources he had to maximum effect.
>

The whole Nazi system was hopelessly inefficient. It was based
on competing groups many of which had been given the same
goals and powers. Moreover local Gauleiters were more interested
in favouring their own interests than prosecuting the war effectively.

Albert Speer's memoirs while self serving do reveal how inefficient
German Industry was compared with Britain, let alone the
USA and USSR.

> It is also said that more effort was expended on aviation projects many
> of which did not work as the whole expenditure on Manhatten.
>
>

This was not a uniquely German phenomena, the B-29 program
cost more than Manhattan.

Keith



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