what were the new weapons and Technologies in WWII?

Answer 1

There were several, but these are the most profound in my humble opinion...(Not in order of importance)

#1 Early Radar Championed the success over the Luftwaffe and saved the campaign over the battle of Britain and most likely the war.

#2 The V-2 rocket, although had a small degree of success by the Germans in WWII it's creation opened up a new era in military strategy that is the most important change for the military in the cold war and today.

#3 The Atom bomb, but you probably already new that...

#4 The turbine engine for Jet fighters...used very little and toward the end of the war by the Germans and British.

#5 The MP-44 sturm gehwher 44 (Assault Rifle 44) (German) Standardized the key components for almost all the modern assault rifles to today. Was used very little and in small numbers towards the end of the war.

#6 Advanced long range bombers like the B-36, The Russians stole this technology and created their own called the "Bear" that they used throughout the cold war.

#7 The 20mm and 30mm cannon rounds used by the German Luftwafe, we adapted these rounds to our own military designs and you can find them on every fighter jet we have in our arsenal today. They replaced the stanard .50 cal round.

#8 The Philidelphia Project, a strange experiment conducted by the US Navy to camoflage ships,the experiment failed, but the technology is amazing. It basically uses electromagnetic fields that dissisimilates molecular bonds...kind of scary and nothing yet productive has benefited from it yet, but if the technology is harnessed the star trek idea of "beam me up scotty" could theoretically be possible.

#9 There is another technology similar in scope to the last one, but I forget the name of it. Basically, it ionizes the air around an airframe, so that the vehicle becomes lighter than air...the only problem is that it takes vast amounts of energy to sustain it like the need of a powerplant, so it is impractical. If it was harnessed air travel would be revolutionized.

There are probably a lot more, but these are the ones on my mind...

Answer 2

There were tons of new weapons and tactics in WWII.

First off was the concept of Blitzkrieg (sp?) by the Germans. While they were employing new methods and weapons, others were still fighting with horses and wagons.

Plenty of new fighters, bombers, tanks, rifles, etc. were introduced during wwii. The age of the aircraft carrier started in WWII.

At the end, we saw the first jet fighters and of course the first Nuclear weapons.

Answer 3

Radar Helicopters Rockets Nuclear guns Proximity Fuses in Artillery (Very Use finished in Anti plane guns) Sonar Airborne gadgets (First warfare used on a huge scale) George S. Patton Rifle Grenades "The Marines" lengthy variety Bombers B-17 B-29 Submarines Higgins Boats (D-Day) O.S.S. (Forerunner to the CIA) Small fingers: M-a million Garand, M-3 Grease Gun, Colt 40 5, BAR (Browning computerized Rifle), M-2 .50cal gadget Gun, M-a million Carbine, Browning .30cal water-cooled gadget Gun. Thompson Sub-gadget Gun, Springfield 1903 sniper rifle. some Tanks: M-3 Stuart, M-4 Sherman, M-26 Pershing more advantageous plane: P-51 Mustang, P-40 warfare-hawk, P-38 Lightning, Corsair, Dauntless, F6F-3 Hellcat, C-40 seven shipment airplane. Flame Throwers White Phosphorus Grenades it is all I were given dude...... u . s . a . of america had the M-a million 60 mm rocket launcher, this is an anti-tank rocket. have you ever herd of Katusha, properly Russia had rockets besides, and each and each and every us of a for the duration of WW2 used radar. you're the MORON Andy T you've by no skill herd of Katusha Rockets? you're stupid

Answer 4

Well, the U.S. used the new fuze's on their artillery shells at the battle of the bulge, that was a HUGE step forward.

Also, radar was new and very use full.

The stg-44/mp-44 came out and is arguably the first assault rifle and the start of them all, more weapons became semi automatic, or full automatic.

The atomic bomb was new.

Answer 5

mostly what they said but if your talking about small armes some would be.............

Amaerica had
grease gun(nickname)

almost all of germanys weapons were knew but the most famouse were
mg42
and the mp44(first assult rifle)

british
nothing

russia
the predessesor of the PPsH(forgot the neme tho)

Answer 6

The history of nuclear weapons chronicles the development of nuclear weapons—devices of enormous destructive potential which derive their energy from nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reactions—starting with the scientific breakthroughs of the 1930s which made their development possible, continuing through the nuclear arms race and nuclear testing of the Cold War, and finally with the questions of proliferation and possible use for terrorism in the early 21st century.

The first fission weapons ("atomic bombs") were developed in the United States during World War II in what was called the Manhattan Project, at which point two were dropped on Japan. The Soviet Union started development shortly thereafter with their own atomic bomb project, and not long after that both countries developed even more powerful fusion weapons ("hydrogen bombs"). During the Cold War, these two countries each acquired nuclear weapons arsenals numbering in the thousands, placing many of them onto rockets which could hit targets anywhere in the world. Currently there are at least eight countries with functional nuclear weapons. A considerable amount of international negotiating has focused on the threat of nuclear warfare and the proliferation of nuclear weapons to new nations or groups.

There have been (at least) four major false alarms, the most recent in 1995, that almost resulted in the US or Russia launching its weapons in retaliation for a supposed attack

The notion of using a fission weapon to ignite a process of nuclear fusion can be dated back to 1942. At the first major theoretical conference on the development of an atomic bomb hosted by J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, participant Edward Teller directed the majority of the discussion towards Enrico Fermi's idea of a "Super" bomb which would utilize the same reactions which powered the Sun itself. It was thought at the time that a fission weapon would be quite simple to develop and that perhaps work on a hydrogen bomb would be possible to complete before the end of the Second World War. However, in reality the problem of a "regular" atomic bomb was large enough to preoccupy the scientists for the next few years, much less the more speculative "Super." Only Teller continued working on the project—against the will of project leaders Oppenheimer and Hans Bethe.

The hydrogen bomb age had a profound effect on the thoughts of nuclear war in the popular and military mind. With only fission bombs, nuclear war could be considered something which could easily be "limited." Dropped by planes and only able to destroy the most built up areas of major cities, it was possible to consider fission bombs simply a technological extension of previous wartime bombing (such as the extensive firebombing which took place against Japan and Germany during World War II), and claims that such weapons could lead to worldwide death or harm were easily brushed aside as grave exaggeration. Even the decades before the development of fission weapons there had been speculation about the possibility for human beings to end all life on the planet by either accident or purposeful maliciousness, but technology had never allowed for such a capacity. The far greater power of hydrogen bombs made this seem ever closer.

The first nuclear-tipped rockets, such as the MGR-1 Honest John, first deployed by the U.S. in 1953, were surface-to-surface missiles with relatively short ranges (around 15 mi/25 km maximum) with yields around twice the size of the first fission weapons. The limited range of these weapons meant that they could only be used in certain types of potential military situations—the U.S. rocket weapons could not, for example, threaten the city of Moscow with the threat of an immediate strike, and could only be used as "tactical" weapons (that is, for small-scale military situations).
With the development of more rapid-response technologies (such as rockets and long-range bombers), this policy began to shift. If the Soviet Union also had nuclear weapons and a policy of "massive retaliation" was carried out, it was reasoned, then any Soviet forces not killed in the initial attack, or launched while the attack was ongoing, would be able to serve their own form of nuclear "retaliation" against the U.S. Recognizing this to be an undesirable outcome, military officers and game theorists at the RAND think tank developed a nuclear warfare strategy that would eventually become known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

MAD divided potential nuclear war into two stages: first strike and second strike. A first strike would be the first use of nuclear weapons by one nuclear-equipped nation against another nuclear-equipped nation. If the attacking nation did not prevent the attacked nation from a nuclear response, then a second strike could be deployed against the attacking nation. In this situation, whether the U.S. first attacked the USSR or the USSR first attacked the U.S., the end result would be that both nations would be damaged perhaps to the point of utter social collapse. According to game theory, because starting a nuclear war would be suicidal, no logical country would willfully enter into a nuclear war. However, if a country were capable of launching a first strike which would utterly destroy the ability of the attacked country to respond in kind, then the balance of power would be disturbed and nuclear war could then be safely undertaken.

MAD played on two seemingly opposed modes of thought: cold logic and emotional fear. The phrase by which MAD was often known, "nuclear deterrence", was translated as "dissuasion" by the French and "terrorization" by the Russians. This apparent paradox of nuclear war was summed up by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as "the worse things get, the better they are"—the greater the threat of mutual destruction, the safer the world would be.

Answer 7

Alot, atomic bomb, jet engine, rockets and missles, personal antitank rockets, assualt rifle, submachine gun, submarine, paratroopers, amphibious assualt, ect.

Answer 8

air bombs, machine guns, vehicles, mass destruction weapons, airplanes, radar

Answer 9

off hand..... the atomic bomb, jet aircraft, radar, and the jeep.