People like to speculate on unlikely scenarios if everything had gone perfectly for the Nazis and their experiments had paid off - "What if they'd made the first guided missile submarine? What if they'd fielded the first jet fighter air force?"
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The classic LucasArts flight sim Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was based on the latter scenario (and the Star Wars game TIE Fighter loosely based on that), this movie fantasy of an ultimate strike bomber letting one Knight of the Air win the war by himself
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It leaves a bad taste in my mouth having been a fan of that stuff as a kid But I mean you don't have to worry, Göring was too stupid not to get anyone who would've been competent enough to volunteer for such a role pointlessly killed (which is the plot of TIE Fighter)
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And then, of course, Hitler, being such a fan of his high-tech toys, couldn't stop himself from meddling in them, trying to turn the Me-262 into a bomber and the like
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Yeah the manual of SWotL makes it clear that if the jet planes had any ability to turn the tide of the war it would've been as *fighters*, to shoot down the enemy's bombers, not as a bomber itself Because, you know, at that point they were losing and playing defense
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein and
But Hitler was extremely reluctant to do anything to beef up the Luftwaffe's air-to-air combat capacity even though it was there where their pilots had the most advantage and it was obviously the smart play Because playing defense is for pussies
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein and
He was lost in his schoolboy fantasy of his ultimate strike bomber ending the war instantly by flying off on its own to blow up London or something because he didn't grasp that longer range didn't mean infinite range
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And that the ultimate bomber was never going to get an ultimate bomb to carry because he'd sent away all the German scientists who knew the first thing about how to build an A-bomb, for being Jewish
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Heisenberg was an important exception. Many scientists who fled to the US cooperated with the Manhattan Project because they feared Heisenberg was building a bomb for Hitler.
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Replying to @engstrom_doug @arthur_affect and
True; although he was so far off target that to this day people argue about whether he was sabotaging their efforts deliberately or just hideously wrong
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Heisenberg was fucked anyway no matter what he did The whole atmosphere of Nazi leadership was one where Himmler could accuse Heisenberg of being a "White Jew" and a traitor just for speaking positively about Einstein's work
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