Thank heaven for the Nazi’s predilection to waste immense resources on “super-weapons” that were nothing but boondoggles. Those German “geniuses” never had the sense to use the standardized industrial production model, but built most of their stuff so that part interchangeability was seldom possible. Having owned several German cars and motorcycles I can attest to the falsity of “superior” German engineering.
Overcomplex doesn’t begin to describe it. The old VW beetles were an anomaly. Once again the Germans are back to building over-engineered unreliable crap. Ask anyone who was foolish enough to buy a used Jetta.
Or the BMW motorcycles with serious driveline and frame breakage problems. Your chance of needing a major repair on a BMW is one and three. Worse than Harley, which is one in 4.
Kind of like the American renewable energy industry.
The V2 program is a classic example. All of that money, all of that effort, resulted in a weapon system that delivered the amount of explosives that 2 raids from the 8th Air Force delivered.
And they could manage it about twice a week. So all of that effort basically duplicated two raids from the 8th Air Force. And the V2 is actually famous for actually killing more people who built it then it was used against.