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Originally Posted by Super_Dave_D
My comments is a reply to your statement “But the reality is Germany did not lead the US in technology”, It has nothing to do with the outcome of the war – man your shifting gears to support your comments
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My point by citing the numerous examples, was that the often vaunted axis technologies, while on the surface are seemingly impressive, were in fact quite problematic, overrated, underdeveloped and inferior to the allied achievements.
Norden bomb site
More effective radars
Computers
Long Range Heavy bombers
Longe Range Escort fighters to accompany them
A-bomb
These are all allied achievements for which the Axis had no answer and no equivalent. They were all effective. Far more so than the axis technologies, which were too little, too late, and often wrong-headed or poorly concieved both in design and strategic use. Effectiveness of course is a key attribute in any successful technology.
The Axis did have a technological breakthrough for which the allies had no countermeasure: Sarin gas, but they never deployed it because:
1. Hitler had been gassed during WW1
2. He thought the Allies also knew how to make it.