Would the WWII German Fighter Jets helped them win the war that much?

Question

It might have slowed bombing but it would be enough. They couldn't really mass produce them and I just want to know what you people think.

I meant to say if they came out with the jets earlier

Answer 1

The technology would have helped them achieve air superiority if the commanders really comprehended what they had to work with. The problem is that they were stretched thin in too many other areas. They were having big supplyline problems and their oil fields in Romania were being cut off.

I don't think that the jets would have tipped the scales.

Besides, once America captured the Spear of Destiny, the Germans were doomed to defeat.

Answer 2

Germany had a lot of technology show up just a little too late. The type XXI U-boat, Jet technology, and even the nuclear bomb (never was finished by the end of the war). If all of these technologies had shown up early enough in the war and the allies were unable to adapt or construct them as well, the war could have turned the other way. Without a doubt, Germany has had an influence on military technology today, more so than our own advances, so it would stand to reason that they were technically more advanced. The main reason they lost in the first place was their Blitzkrieg tactics, they were excellent for taking territory, but little was ever done to reinforce and hold the land which they had taken. If Germany had taken France and Norway, bunkered down, and taken a defensive position until this new technology was available...well we would likely not be having this conversation now.

Answer 3

Might have. Strategic bombing may or may not have been really important, but please keep in mind that American doctrine relied heavily on tactical air. The armored units, for instance, were not doctrinally to match Shermans against Panthers and Tigers, though of course they wound up doing so a lot. The P47, Typhoon, etc., were what the Allies counted on to counter the Panzers. That's why von Rundstedt's plan for the defense of Normandy (keeping back from naval gunfire, then a classic German counterattack with armor) was not adopted. The Allied air power kept them from being able to do so.

Answer 4

I agree along with your undemanding element that technologies on my own would not win wars, yet I do think of you're giving the Nazi's somewhat too plenty credit or the allies no longer adequate, finding on the form you seem at it. great tanks.... no longer that great, they could no longer bypass 0.5 the bridges in France (too vast and heavy) and broke down plenty. Their usefulness has been frankly overstimated. Jet airplane.... the British had jet airplane previously the Germans and much greater of them. ICBMs.... no they did no longer, the V2 replaced into ballistic in spite of the indisputable fact that it wasn't intercontinental, the A10 by no skill have been given off the drafting board. quite the allies had the technological benefit in as many aspects because of the fact the Germans did. - British radar helped win the conflict of england, - British computers helped crack german militia codes (extremely) - US artillery proximity fuses wrought havoc on Nazi infantry formations for the duration of the conflict of the Bulge - British sonar helped defeat the German U Boats and relatively experienced squaddies isn't a technological subject.

Answer 5

Not really, their JUMO engines were unreliable, & short lived, mostly made by slave laborers.

Very slow on take off & Landing, easy meat for P-51's, Typhoons, Lagg's

Not enough produced, not enough fuel, too much time wasted on the Schnellbomber concept

And in the end, even if the LW had 2,000 the ground forces of the USA,UK,USSR were still Unstoppable

Answer 6

They only had a very short range and short flying time. I don't think they would have made a big difference if they had been available a year earlier and the war was already being lost on the Eastern front anyway.

Answer 7

Like most weps the Nazi made. The jets came too late in the war to really be of help. Now if they had had them in numbers in 1940, it could have made things very bad indeed.

Answer 8

no.

it wasn't just production, it was qualified pilots.

goering said that if allied air attacks penetrated the luftwaffe you could call him 'meyer.'

the problem was that germany knew that production was going to be an issue at the outset of the war - hence the emphasis on 'blitzkrieg' (lightning warfare) - the need to strike quickly before anyone could adjust to them and fight back.

it worked well at first, but the problem of getting certain natural resources and the loss of more pilots, planes and tanks and other critical resources meant that germany was going to be in deep trouble in any long war.

meanwhile, herman meyer was in seclusion in karen hall, while german industry was clobbered over and over again by allied bombers...

Answer 9

No, because aircraft need oil to run, and the Soviets had steamrolled over the Romanian oil fields by then.