Nazi insane weaponry

[Levina]

If you are talking about insane weaponry developed during WW2 do check out the Japanese subs designed to carry fighter planes... The I-400 class of submarines..

Hitler and Nazis ignored one important aspect. Building the top navy with at least 7 ACs and support groups of ACs.
Japanese in that respect were far ahead of Nazis.
Due to bad navy (just some heavy hitter battle ships like Bismark and its sister ship), Nazis were land and air only, missing the third and important leg. Their focus was on subs, but subs cannot bring fuel and supplies home. They are bad defense weapons.
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You guys 're so right....I tried searching for japanese I-400 and this is what I got

Japanese submarine images

The I-400 subs were the largest ever built until the Ethan Allen-class of nuclear subs in 1961. The I-400subs not only could travel one and a half times around the world without refueling, they carried three Aichi M6A1 attack planes, which they launched off their bow when surfaced, effectively making them underwater aircraft carriers.

This is the only known photograph of a Sen-toku sub taken by the Japanese during World War II. It shows two Aichi M6A1 attack planes on deck waiting to be launched. Nicknamed Seiran, the aircraft were intended to appear over New York City and Washington, DC just as their name suggested: "like a storm from a clear sky." Only two classes of subs were purpose built to carry Seiran: the I-400 class, and the Type A modified subs (I-13 and I-14), which were based on the I-9. The I-400s carried three planes each while the I-13 andI-14 could only fit two in part because they were 28 feet shorter than theI-400's total length of 401 feet.
Storm From A Clear Sky - by John Geoghegan

 

[Levina]

Actually I think he is talking about something the Japanese had...they were working on hydrogen filled balloons with attached incendiary bombs. The concept was that these balloons would be carried by the wind above the Pacific ocean to America and Canada and then the bombs would be dropped. They wanted to burn farmlands and cities. However this project was not successful and was abandoned.

Thanks!!!
I did search for it ...and i found that those were created to wreak havoc by causing forest fires. @sreekumar may be you were talking about this.
Japan's Secret WWII Weapon: Balloon Bombs

 

[SrNair]

Thanks!!!
I did search for it ...and i found that those were created to wreak havoc by causing forest fires. @sreekumar may be you were talking about this.
Japan's Secret WWII Weapon: Balloon Bombs

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No no.I was meant about buzz bomb. I was mistaken and mixed both V1 design and ballon like Airship.

 

[Levina]

No no.I was meant about buzz bomb. I was mistaken and mixed both V1 design and ballon like Airship.

okay

 

[Koovie]

Oh bhai sahib.

AC's of Britain death the death blow to bismark and you say they didn't play a role.

AC's + British American navy was crucial in the route of Germans in Africa.

In essence British American navies in Atlantic stopped Hitler from resupplying at the level he needed.

Yes, but the Bismarck (like battleships in general) did not come even close to the significance of U Boats during the battle of the Atlantic.
And yes, the Allies won the battle, but not by having better battleships but by having an enormous advantage with the Enigma machine, new technology to hunt subs and most importantly the insane industrial capacity of the USA.

 

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[Levina]

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Hmmm some homework for me?
searched it on google to find that its called Horton Ho 229.


The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (often called Gotha Go 229 due to the identity of the chosen manufacturer of the aircraft) was a late-World War II prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik. It was the first pure flying wing powered by a jet engine and designed to be more difficult to detect with radar - the first aircraft to incorporate what is now known as stealth technology. It was a personal favorite of German Luftwaffe chief Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, and was the only aircraft to come close to meeting his "1000, 1000, 1000" performance requirements. Its speed was estimated at 1,024 kph (636 mph) and its ceiling 15,000 meters (49,213 ft).

 

[Arsalan]

I loved this video, the count down starts with heliobeam then switches to V2 and then the dirty nuclear bomb. Imagine if Germans had come up with their atomic bomb before US then Newyork (it was their target) would have been present day Hiroshima.

But since they failed to do so and since it was US which not only made a nuclear bomb but also used it against two Japanese cities so this made the US and allies the Champions of Humanity and Nazi become the only evil of that that time.


As Churchill said History is written by the victors.

In the starting post you thanks God that they were not able to made all these mentioned weapons, no we have F-22, Ballistic missiles, hydrogen bombs, bio/chemical weapons and what not. We were deprived of a 100 ways to kill a man and we have developed thousands more to increase the threat.
If the Germany had developed these weapons the world today would have been very different , but that difference was a good or for the worst is something that we can never know now.
Was that difference for the worst? i am not so sure when i look at the ways of destruction we have invented for our self!

 

[Levina]

Enigma Cipher machine

During World War II, the Germans used the Enigma, a cipher machine, to develop nearly unbreakable codes for sending secret messages. The Enigma's settings offered 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible solutions, yet the Allies were eventually able to crack its code.

The machine was developed by the Dutch to communicate banking secrets. The Germans bought the patent in 1923 for intelligence purposes. Polish intelligence was able to purchase an Enigma at a trade fair and procure a codebook from a French agent. When Poland was overrun in 1939, the Poles realized they wouldn’t have capabilities to solve the code and gave the information and machine to the Allies.

By end of the war, the British were reading 10 percent of all German Enigma communications at Bletchley Park, in England, on the world’s first electromagnetic computers.

This is a three-rotor Enigma. The Germans eventually added two more rotors, and with each change, Allies had to obtain a new machine and codebooks.

 

[Declein]

Unfortunately for them they missed out on the only insane weapon that could win the war:

and instead build a lot of useless junk (aka the Mouse, 13424 types of jet planes, etc)

 

[Levina]

Unfortunately for them they missed out on the only insane weapon that could win the war:

and instead build a lot of useless junk (aka the Mouse, 13424 types of jet planes, etc)

Am glad that they did not. Actually they were working on something which the Americans called dirty nuclear bombs , a smaller version of atomic bombs.And they even had plans to attack Newyork with their atomic bomb.

 

[Koovie]

Unfortunately for them they missed out on the only insane weapon that could win the war:

and instead build a lot of useless junk (aka the Mouse, 13424 types of jet planes, etc)

The Americans were far ahead of the Germans in nuclear technology and had much much more resources for their work on the first nuke. Apart from that, the allies would have found out about any German effort to make a nuke relatively fast due to their superb intelligence networks.... while you cant say the same about the Germans.

And building anything reliable that could reach the USA from Europe would have taken a long time as well.

 

[atatwolf]

Hitler was a crazy man. I'm almost thinking that he was a foreign agent with the task of destroying German industrial power.

Hitler wanted everything "big". If you look at most German failed projects. Hitler is responsible. He always intervened and told the engineers how he wanted it.

If it was only up the German industrial engineering. A lot of these projects would have succeeded. Especially the super tank was a disaster. He should have listened to his engineers which told them it was not a good idea. Because of his personality disorder nobody dared to oppose him.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Enigma Cipher machine

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During World War II, the Germans used the Enigma, a cipher machine, to develop nearly unbreakable codes for sending secret messages. The Enigma's settings offered 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible solutions, yet the Allies were eventually able to crack its code.

The machine was developed by the Dutch to communicate banking secrets. The Germans bought the patent in 1923 for intelligence purposes. Polish intelligence was able to purchase an Enigma at a trade fair and procure a codebook from a French agent. When Poland was overrun in 1939, the Poles realized they wouldn’t have capabilities to solve the code and gave the information and machine to the Allies.

By end of the war, the British were reading 10 percent of all German Enigma communications at Bletchley Park, in England, on the world’s first electromagnetic computers.

This is a three-rotor Enigma. The Germans eventually added two more rotors, and with each change, Allies had to obtain a new machine and codebooks.

Britain took all he credit of breaking Enigma.but its main claimant was Poland.its them who developed Bomba to break German Enigma code in 1938.it was transported to Britain after Poland was attacked,from which Britain ade Bombe.

Bomba (cryptography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Levina]

Britain took all he credit of breaking Enigma.but its main claimant was Poland.its them who developed Bomba to break German Enigma code in 1938.it was transported to Britain after Poland was attacked,from which Britain ade Bombe.

Bomba (cryptography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Right!
Poland's achievement was overshadowed by Britain. The article or a part of it that I've pasted above is from the CIA's webpage.