Could this fighter/bomber would have really turn the tide for the Third Reich during ww2?
>>65277008No.
>>65277011This.
>>65277008No, but this could, up until 1942, at least.And maybe nerve gas
>>65277008No. The war was decided as soon as the US entered the European theater. Post depression America was the greatest production entity the world has ever seen, both in quantity and quality. And we had geographic immunity.Multiple German officer biographies exist of them realizing how the war was unwinnable when the discovered American troops could be supplied with cold Coca-Cola and ice cream or being sent to the US and seeing the endless miles of fields while being rail transported to POW camps.Personally I think we should have only focused on the Japanese and sold supplies to both sides in Europe, fuck Lend-Lease. But that is not how it went.
>>65277065>and qualityBruh please. Shermans were shit-tier, even against PzIV's.
>>65277008Most of these wonder waffles were papertigers to squeeze money from the government. Even if Hitler wasnt retarded and commissioned jet fighters instead of bombers, imagine you had a squadron of jet fighters somehow build by 42', the logistics were already fucked. Imagine putin revealing a giant mecha. It would be fucked by enemy artillery or run out of fuel 2 miles out of Moscow. No matter how cool a vehicle or weapon is, you cannot win wars with them alone.
>>65277065>>65277090Strategically the war was over by the end of 1942. Germany after that time would simply never be able to regain a manufacturing or material/mineral resource foothold to outpace the Allies-U.S. tidal wave. There were some weapon systems that had potential, but just for one random example the Bf 109 ought have been completely ditched at the end of 1942 in favor of the Fw 190 as standard single engine fighter airplane but they couldn't do or accomplish that due to manufacturing logistics. Germany was completely fucked by January 1943.
>>65277133>Germany was completely fucked by January 1943.And yet they completely assfucked Americans at Kasserine pass in Febuary of 1943
>>65277144Strategically assfucked, not operationally.
>>65277090>shit-tierBelton Cooper is long dead
>>65277195Death traps, all of them.
>>65277205What a shitty place to live. No wonder people came to America.
>>65277272meh
>>65277008It's funny that America had the only wunderwaffe that mattered. The proximity fuse shell and the atomic bomb. The allies had jets at the end of the war they just didn't use them.
>>65277133Strategically the war was over once Britain refused to surrender after the fall of France, and once the USSR failed to keel over and collapse as predicted after the initial weeks of Barbarossa. As soon as the Eastern Front turned into attritional warfare of rounds of counter-attacks (specifically at Smolensk, even though the Soviet attack failed), it was game over. Germany could never outman or outproduce the USSR and its fuel reserves were on a timer. The entire operation was explicitly based on a gamble that the Soviet government would collapse and the Red Army would dissolve into the countryside like the Imperial Russian Army after Brest-Letovsk.
>>65277834>As soon as / attritionalYes by the end of 1942 and Stalingrad it was clearly evident that the Russia invasion was totally lost.>Britain / gambleThere could still have been another outcome had the Russia invasion gone differently and during 1941-1942 Germany had been able to secure petroleum, raw mineral sources to sustain it. Yes the mid-1941 invasion was a calculated large-expense roll of the dice and ended up being the doom roll.
