| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["war"],"appCategory":"war","appTitle":"Why the Germans, during the Second World War, were the best technologically for their weapons?","appBody":"<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://k60.kn3.net/taringa/A/9/A/9/6/C/macedonio/2D3.jpg\" /></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>One of many questions or approaches suitable to open a debate long ago, and that certainly can not be answered with a simple \"yes\" or \"no\".</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Reducing it to the minimum expression, I would answer this question with \"part and part\". At the beginning of the war - and of course in pre-war - I would say yes, there was in many aspects a certain technological advantage. During the war this advantage was lost, simply by the coincidence of the need of the allies to confront Germanic weapons with the German negligence produced by sheer arrogance (derived in turn from the initial global technological superiority, artificially magnified until scratch the myth by the propaganda apparatus and by the desire of the people to believe it), which led to devote enormous human and material resources to parallel investigations and for the most part futile, but without the pressure of necessity. The lack of resources towards the end of the war leaves no time or space to take advantage of this advantage in the fields where it still existed - which were not all.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>In any case, I do not consider it an overwhelming advantage, although it is true that on paper - or on the plans, if you prefer - the vast majority of the designs produced would have weighed much more in the contest of having had the necessary materials (The Panther transmission system comes to my head as an example ... technically a marvel, but I was guilty of constant breaks because the materials available could not support the load of that design).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>And let me indicate the - in my opinion - paradox of such a situation: the technological advantage derived from that desire for perfectionism \"on paper\" was probably one of the causes of the gradual practical disadvantage on the ground, constantly seeking perfection instead of the solution, the quality instead of the quantity (and certainly the fame and reputation - at least among the honorable colleagues - rather than the viability and practical benefit for the combatants).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>If you allow me some comments to the exposed by the participants:</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Otto: It depends on how high of the war. The Wehrmacht was never in a position to use portable radios such as the Americans. Probably because it did not fit into his philosophy (radio, for the controls). Radar, Sonar and other radio techniques were superior on the allied side. Maybe the devices were compared one by one better, there I can not enter. But in any case, allied radars in aircraft and ships were able to actively locate a submarine (something quite small in the vastness of an ocean) both in position and distance, while submarine systems could only \"see\" that there was something in X miles around, but without knowing direction or distance ...</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The missile technology was in diapers, yes. And that of the allies, more. But the Katjuscha and the 60pdr Rockets still caused more havoc, no matter how vague and primitive they were, than all the Vs and other artifacts as a whole.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>And what a Tiger or Panther lasted today in tank warfare ... we better leave it</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>They would not even be in a position to scratch the paint on a T72 ... an Abrams or a Leopard 2A6 or tell them anymore), and that is because the projectile would stop the ERA. Let's not pass, 60 years do not pass in vain, and in weapons technology, less.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>And if we mention the Gew41 or the 43, I mention that both the SVT-40 and the M1 Garand are even earlier. And in global calculation, superior.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pk2lzrd95","appParentAuthor":"fabioladiaz","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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