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About radios in warfare? In fact, any materiel?

Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on February 5, 2017 at 12:52:14

In Reply to: RE: when Goering realised that Britain had won the radar/radio war ... posted by Michael Samra on February 5, 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!"


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Tim Bailey

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