BlaineWasHere
I brake for apexes!
- Location
- NorCal
That reminds me of this old add:
I could use this instead of snow tires...
That reminds me of this old add:
The Spitfire was also labelled in Marks (and there was a MkV Spitfire!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitfire#Specifications_.28Spitfire_Mk_Vb.29
German technology during the war - except in the crucial field of electronics - was generally superior to anything else the Allied forces could muster.
@Aggressor, I agree with points 1) and 2) you make, but don't underestimate point 3) - thanks to advances in mathematics and electronics, the Allies could break every German code and know in advance what the Axis powers were planning to do, and with the development of Radar, were able to operate with effective impunity at night and counter the German and Japanese air threat.
Send a sherman tank after a panzer, loose a sherman tank
send three sherman tanks after a panzer, loose three sherman tanks
so, by that logic, the sherman tank was the honda civic of WWII...
and yea, I'm convinced we won that war for two reasons:
1.Hitler was a tactical moron.
2.We could build more planes than anyone else.
The germans had the first Assault Rifle, first jet powered fighter, and a tank that owned the battlefield.
Of course, it's hard to build said tech when your country's being bombed 24/7. Allied Airpower FTW
Yeah but the US didn't use the atom bomb in the ETO. Hitler's downfall was that he built a fortress without a roof.Atom Bomb> Anything
I forgot about the spitfire, another example of a best-in-class machine that used the Mark system :thumbsup:
and I agree that radar was also a major factor. But what truly gave the U.S. (and to a lesser extent, England) impunity was geography. Having a major body of water between you and your enemy, and having the fighting take place on the enemy's soil, is a critical tactical advantage.
and as far as code cracking, it helps when you capture an enemy submarine, complete with a working example of their current encoding machinery. And the enemy never knows it.
But I think we can all agree, the Germans should have just stuck to building cars...
Atom Bomb> Anything