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In Reply to: RE: when Goering realised that Britain had won the radar/radio war ... posted by Michael Samra on February 05, 2017 at 05:20:09
German radars and radios were unnecessarily good for their task.
A comment from the top technician of the British Y service? Their radio intercept service? Was that even to the end of teh war a new German radar was easy to distinguish because it's signal's stability was unnecessarily good.
Overdone and too fit for purpose = expensive and perhaps slow to make.
Much of Germany's manufacturing of war materiel was chaotic, poorly planned and obsolescent.
Necessary changes to weapons were often too late.
Hitler's 'operating style' began with a decision to let his subordinates compete with each other, and so the arms programs were not controlled.
He also decided to keep a peace-time economy going way into the war, even after mid 1941. Not until 1942 did German mass-production kick in.
Even after Speer took over, which was too late in any case, many pointless and hugely wasteful programs kept going. Eg? The V1, V2, V3, V4, the Maus and the King Tiger (aka TigerII.)
Hitler famously lost his temper over the main gun armament of the PzKWIII, twice. The decision to equip it with a 3.7cm instead of the 5cm he wanted, and then going with a shorter 5cm gun, than the long 5cm. No-one was shot and so the III was way under-gunned by mid 1941. No-one was punished.
Only in the deserts of Nth Africa did the III still perform well, mostly because of Britain being stuck with the 2pdr for far too long, and their self-imposed tactics.
Even at the PAA's defeat at 2nd Alamein in November 1942, there were more IIIs than MkIV's with the longer 7.5cm gun.
So that Germany was on the down curve long before British, US, Canadian and of course Russian production capacity at last kicked in. Russia managed to move its factories behind the Urals in 1941 and got it going flat out within months.
"Quantity has a quality, all its own!"
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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The conversion of Pz III production to the assault gun StuG III seems to be one of the better use of materiel and manpower. In order to make an effective weapon, based on pre-existing tooling.
I believe that all variants of the StuG III killed more Russian T-34, than all other tanks. Something close to 10:1 kill ratio.
and I'll come back to that. But .....Russia won Barbarossa in 1941, just. With almost no help at all, from the Western allies. Without many T34s too.
Because they did and had got their factories back behind the Urals, they were going to win and Germany was going to lose.
Just as the USNavy did at Coral Sea and Midway, just.
Took Russia three and half years to defeat Germany and its allies and the USA and its allies three years to defeat Japan.
The STUGs - were originally intended to support the infantry in attacks with short 7.5cm low-velocity guns.
They were given long high velocity guns, urgently - in consequence of the failure by Germany in Barbarossa. Unintended consequences at work.
Not as flexible as tanks, with the same guns, and very good for lying in wait. And, yet more flexible than towed Anti/Tank guns.
So, this shift within the Wehrmacht wasn't a sign of victory, but of defeat. It's a defensive posture weapon. As were the Tiger and Tiger II.
One asks oneself why Hitler's Germany went to war, with the aim always being Russia? Because that always was his aim, and he was running the show.
Coral Sea just looks like a simple draw. One smallish IJN carrier sunk. But, two big carriers out of the picture, one because its aircrew had gone, and the other badly damaged, and both go back to Japan for a long period.
USN loses one over-large carrier and patches up Yorktown at Pearl.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/06/17 02/06/17
After Zhukov counterattacked in Dec., 1941 and after Midway in June, 1942, the ultimate outcome was decided.
Stalin, eventually, learned to listen to his generals, but in early 1942 his meddling cost an awful lot. Hitler (thankfully) never learned the lesson.
Very sadly, General Sherman was right. "War is all hell."
Eli D.
Nearly ground 75% of all combat worthy German armor into dust. Not sure Germans had any major counter-offensive armored operations on the East, after Kursk debacle.
I guess the 6.SS-Panzer push against the Russians in Hungary, 1945 (Operation Frühlingserwachen). Which ground down whatever German tanks were left in the arsenal.
Battle of Bulge & Nordwind destroyed majority of remaining German armor on the West.
no german radios here ... yet.
a little OT but still WWII ... rca ar88. I've used for years, bone stock, untouched ... doesn't got hot even after hours of use ... as sensitive as my 67' eac r390a (not as selective, obviously). been slowly changing leaky caps. nice radio.
best,
mike
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