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Its not as simple as that though. The Nazis fielded the first jet fighter, and it was overwhelmingly dominant. But because of maintenance issues and material sh
by petsfed 3y ago
Its not as simple as that though. The Nazis fielded the first jet fighter, and it was overwhelmingly dominant. But because of maintenance issues and material shortages, wikipedia claims that less than 100 were operational at any given time.
One hundred!
I'll concede that the mainline fighters of the Allies were superior to the mainline fighters of the Nazis, but my claim is that manufacturing at scale is a technological advantage all by itself. If the Me262 is worth 3 P-51s, then one way to defeat it is to build 3 times as many P-51s (which the US did).
I do wonder, maybe the reason strategic bombing of Nazi industry was ineffective was because Nazi industry (apparently) relied so heavily on manual labor. If that is true, the destruction of a factory would be less the destruction of expensive, complicated machinery, and more the destruction of a place to sit down.