B-21 to replace B-52
03-06-2016 | 06:16 PM
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..........The answer he told me was the Germans were masters at building technologically superior weapons in insufficient numbers to matter. Then I had the ah-ha moment when I realized that today the U.S. is building the same kind of "wunder waffen." We did not out tech the Germans, we out produced them. I remember reading once that one factory building B-24s at one point managed to get 1 plane per hour off the assembly line. I can't remember if it was a Consolidated plant or one of the auto plants that had retooled to help with the war effort.
I'm pretty sure the factory you're referencing was the Willow Run plant, but I think it was a new-build facility for the war, just financed/run by Ford.
Ah...but quantity has a quality all its own.
Germany again, on the Eastern front. Vastly superior army in training, discipline, weapons, communications, and tactics.
Disadvantages: logistic chain was horrifically long, and troops heavily outnumbered. Some would cite the brutal Russian winter, but the Russians had to deal without that, too.
In the end, it was a numbers game.
03-06-2016 | 07:24 PM
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Germany again, on the Eastern front. Vastly superior army in training, discipline, weapons, communications, and tactics.
Disadvantages: logistic chain was horrifically long, and troops heavily outnumbered. Some would cite the brutal Russian winter, but the Russians had to deal without that, too.
In the end, it was a numbers game.
03-07-2016 | 06:45 AM
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Carrier landings, crud and bat hanging were more my forte'.
03-07-2016 | 12:47 PM
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03-07-2016 | 02:06 PM
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03-07-2016 | 03:12 PM
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