From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 00:31:37 MST
--> spike66
> Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> > Pick up some books and check out who during WWII used cruise missiles
> > and ballistic rockets, who introduced guided bombs and jet fighters,
> > who had the superior tanks and invented the assault rifle...
>
> Naddy, Im not sure the general audience got this one.
> The Nazis were the ones doing all the high tech stuff.
> I am in awe of how advanced they were back in the 30s.
>
> The US and the Russians ended up in a race to develop
> sea launched nukes. They ended in a tie, with both
> nations fielding a semi-workable system in 1960. But
> the Nazis demonstrated a missile that could be launched
> from a submerged U-boat, fly to a distant target and
> hit with great accuracy, way back in 1943. Given
> they had no computers, that was one hellll of an
> accomplishment for those days. Grandpa was smart.
The British developed applications of electromagnetism and information
theory (radar, the first computers, degaussing techniques, etc) while the
Germans were building on materials science and industrial production (better
tanks, submarines, guns, rocketry, jet engines, etc).
Russian tanks were better than German tanks by 1944.
Reason
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