Axis vs. Allied Superweapons

[Dadtallica]

 This cracked me up! 

[hazmatt]

Looks like from that post that they were saying the Germans were stupid. I have to disagree with that. Much of the technology they developed was the basis of many of the weapons today.

Take Wernher von Braun/NASA for example.

Even under dire conditions due to constant bombardment the Germans were able to develop and used many of these.

First Ballistic missile: V2
First Cruise missile:  V1
First precision guided bomb: Hs-293
First anti ship missile: Fritz X
First guided air to air missile: Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4
First jet fighter: Me-262
First flying wing bomber:Horten Ho 229 (notice how similar the B-2 and B-21 raider look?)

I'm sure there's more but those were just off the top of my head.

Those stupid Germans.

[Shuffler]

Looks like from that post that they were saying the Germans were stupid. I have to disagree with that. Much of the technology they developed was the basis of many of the weapons today.

Take Wernher von Braun/NASA for example.

Even under dire conditions due to constant bombardment the Germans were able to develop and used many of these.

First Ballistic missile: V2
First Cruise missile:  V1
First precision guided bomb: Hs-293
First anti ship missile: Fritz X
First guided air to air missile: Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4
First jet fighter: Me-262
First flying wing bomber:Horten Ho 229 (notice how similar the B-2 and B-21 raider look?)

I'm sure there's more but those were just off the top of my head.

Those stupid Germans.

Don't forget the brilliance of starting two world wars.

[Spikes]

This cracked me up! 

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Yikes. Many of these are incorrect in some way.

Imagine a world where innovation is considered a bad thing.

[hazmatt]

Don't forget the brilliance of starting two world wars.

No doubt, a country the size of the state of Texas trying to fight the whole world.

[GasTeddy]

Don't forget the brilliance of starting two world wars.

First World War was not started by Germany, even official truth claims so. 28 June 1914 a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

Austria-Hungary held Serbia responsible, and declared war on 28 July. Russia came to Serbia's defense, and that caused Germany to support Austria. By 4 August, France, and Britain had joined the war on Serbian side and the Ottoman Empire joining Austrian side in November of that same year.

[CptTrips]

First World War was not started by Germany, even official truth claims so. 28 June 1914 a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

Austria-Hungary held Serbia responsible, and declared war on 28 July. Russia came to Serbia's defense, and that caused Germany to support Austria. By 4 August, France, and Britain had joined the war on Serbian side and the Ottoman Empire joining Austrian side in November of that same year.

I'm surprised France didn't surrender by Aug 5. 

Just kidding.  In WWI, the French were savages.  That war just castrated them.

[Dadtallica]

I just enjoyed how they parodied some of the absurdities of all of them.

It was not intended as an in depth commentary of the innovations.

Some of you need to relax a bit in this forum!

[GasTeddy]

Relaxation leads to laziness and demise, this is serious business.

Smiling means you are either insane or support wrong team.

Happiness leads to stagnation, as innovations stop.

Wellbeing is clear sing of devil in your brain...                               

[Professor_Fate]

Axis certainly had science and imagination to build some pretty kewl stuff but that can’t win a war.


Allies super weapon was industrial capacity, GDP and unlimited supply of fuel.

[hazmatt]

I read once that French WW2 rifles were in the best shape of any rifle you could get as a collector.

Never fired and only dropped once...

[Professor_Fate]

I own a scoped K43 infantry rifle, it’s shoots like crap but worth thousands more than what I paid for it 40 years ago.

[perdue3]

Don't forget the brilliance of starting two world wars.

Don't drink the Kool-Aid bud. Just because they signed the document doesn't make it fact.

[icepac]

Axis planes flew the highest altitude missions of WW2.

[icepac]