Ar 234 looks like it can kinda still be in active service
forcallaghan on
A big problem with German equipment(at least the ones that weren’t completely stupid), at least those developed later in the war, was that no matter how theoretically sound the concept was, they almost never had enough time to truly mature because of Germany’s… disadvantageous international position. This point was driven home to me when I read Adam Tooze’s “Wages of Destruction”
PanNiszczyciel on
“Tanks that you can’t use”
1. That’s a railway gun
2. It was used a few times to a great success
But you get bonus points for mentioning Jerry cans
Sea_Cheesecake_2887 on
Those are just prototypes ask any American and they’ll tell you us American boys improved all those designs(via pardoned scientists from the former regime who probably would have made said improvements anyway if given more time, but thank God they didn’t get it)
randomusername1934 on
Unironically the ‘Jerry Can’ (Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister) was the single biggest and most impressive development of the WW2 German armed forces. Everything else was either meme-tier, or just a decade or so too early for what the technology of the early/mid 1940’s could handle.
Resolution-Honest on
You really couldn’t use nvd in practical situation. Battery is very heavy and size of a backpack.
ShenakainSkywallker on
What even is that bell shaped thing
Jhawk163 on
AH yes the Jerry can, the one good piece of the German logistics network. Too bad the rest of their wonder weapons were too expensive and ineffective due to lack of production numbers to actually fucking matter.
HanDjole998 on
Thi is the third time that I am seeing a history meme about Wunderwaffen program of WW2.
OP where you inspired by the ne HOI4 dlc thats releasing soon
1nv4d3rz1m on
First fully submersible submarine? What were everyone else’s submarines in ww2 not able to get completely under the water?
ConsciousPatroller on
Left to right top to bottom:
First box:
* Die Glocke, a conspiracy theory purporting that the Germans built an anti-gravity powered bell with time-travel and teleportation capacity. Yeah.
* Haunebu saucers, the supposed German flying saucer program. No evidence exists of any such craft having ever been made.
* Panzer VIII Maus, the heaviest tank ever built (two prototypes fully assembled and tested). Couldn’t cross bridges, had terrible fuel consumption and was generally just too big.
* Panzer/Landkreuser-1000 Monster, a ridiculous design for a tank with a Gustav gun as the main weapon and two Maus turrets as the secondary armament. Never got off the drawing board but there is evidence that for some time it was seriously considered.
Second box:
* Arado Ar-234 Blitz, the first jet-powered bomber with a maximum speed of 780 km/h and a range of almost 2,000 km. 214 built and used from ~~1941~~ 1944 onwards
* StG 44, the first assault rifle with controllable short to medium-range automatic fire
* Type XXI U-Boat Elektroboot, the first submarine capable of operating fully submerged for the entire mission. 120 built and used from 1943 onwards
* Zielgerät 1229 Vampir, first rifle-mounted active infrared night vision device. Preceded American efforts (sniperscopes) by about a year and was more widely used.
* Fritz-X, the first precision-guided bomb
* The legendary Jerry Can.
Silly-Conference-627 on
First assault rifle so utterly over engineered that it saw minimal usage because of the weight, reliability and production cost.
You8mypizza on
God Bless the Jerry Can!
JohnnyElRed on
Also, let’s be fair to the V-2 rockets. Scared the shit out of the allies by hitting London from so far away, and basically that technology kickstarted the space race.
Doodles_n_Scribbles on
Oh, how cute, a gas can. I’ll bet that really helped against the inflatable armies, corpses with misinformation, and mud that the allies used to curb stomp “the superior German engineering”
Proud_of_my_self on
wait what the jerry can ?
ComedyOfARock on
I’m too lazy to look it up, what was the difference between German Jerry cans and other cans?
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Ar 234 looks like it can kinda still be in active service
A big problem with German equipment(at least the ones that weren’t completely stupid), at least those developed later in the war, was that no matter how theoretically sound the concept was, they almost never had enough time to truly mature because of Germany’s… disadvantageous international position. This point was driven home to me when I read Adam Tooze’s “Wages of Destruction”
“Tanks that you can’t use”
1. That’s a railway gun
2. It was used a few times to a great success
But you get bonus points for mentioning Jerry cans
Those are just prototypes ask any American and they’ll tell you us American boys improved all those designs(via pardoned scientists from the former regime who probably would have made said improvements anyway if given more time, but thank God they didn’t get it)
Unironically the ‘Jerry Can’ (Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister) was the single biggest and most impressive development of the WW2 German armed forces. Everything else was either meme-tier, or just a decade or so too early for what the technology of the early/mid 1940’s could handle.
You really couldn’t use nvd in practical situation. Battery is very heavy and size of a backpack.
What even is that bell shaped thing
AH yes the Jerry can, the one good piece of the German logistics network. Too bad the rest of their wonder weapons were too expensive and ineffective due to lack of production numbers to actually fucking matter.
Thi is the third time that I am seeing a history meme about Wunderwaffen program of WW2.
OP where you inspired by the ne HOI4 dlc thats releasing soon
First fully submersible submarine? What were everyone else’s submarines in ww2 not able to get completely under the water?
Left to right top to bottom:
First box:
* Die Glocke, a conspiracy theory purporting that the Germans built an anti-gravity powered bell with time-travel and teleportation capacity. Yeah.
* Haunebu saucers, the supposed German flying saucer program. No evidence exists of any such craft having ever been made.
* Panzer VIII Maus, the heaviest tank ever built (two prototypes fully assembled and tested). Couldn’t cross bridges, had terrible fuel consumption and was generally just too big.
* Panzer/Landkreuser-1000 Monster, a ridiculous design for a tank with a Gustav gun as the main weapon and two Maus turrets as the secondary armament. Never got off the drawing board but there is evidence that for some time it was seriously considered.
Second box:
* Arado Ar-234 Blitz, the first jet-powered bomber with a maximum speed of 780 km/h and a range of almost 2,000 km. 214 built and used from ~~1941~~ 1944 onwards
* StG 44, the first assault rifle with controllable short to medium-range automatic fire
* Type XXI U-Boat Elektroboot, the first submarine capable of operating fully submerged for the entire mission. 120 built and used from 1943 onwards
* Zielgerät 1229 Vampir, first rifle-mounted active infrared night vision device. Preceded American efforts (sniperscopes) by about a year and was more widely used.
* Fritz-X, the first precision-guided bomb
* The legendary Jerry Can.
First assault rifle so utterly over engineered that it saw minimal usage because of the weight, reliability and production cost.
God Bless the Jerry Can!
Also, let’s be fair to the V-2 rockets. Scared the shit out of the allies by hitting London from so far away, and basically that technology kickstarted the space race.
Oh, how cute, a gas can. I’ll bet that really helped against the inflatable armies, corpses with misinformation, and mud that the allies used to curb stomp “the superior German engineering”
wait what the jerry can ?
I’m too lazy to look it up, what was the difference between German Jerry cans and other cans?