“Wonder Weapons” also were part of Hitler’s downfall. Tanks too big to be transported by rail and too heavy to cross any bridge in Europe. So many different supply trucks were built for Wehrmacht use that they needed to stock most of a million repair parts to keep them all running.
Allied research after the war concluded that if Germany had committed all the financial and industrial resources they’d expended on the V1 & V2 rocket programs (which did little to promote German chances of victory) toward conventional aircraft, they could have built an additional 25,000 fighter airplanes.
Which doesn’t paint to rosy a picture for Putin’s hypersonic missiles either.
That many aircraft wouldn’t of made any difference. Germany didn’t have the fuel or the pilots to operate them.
Putin’s hypersonic missiles either.
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Are just the standard 9K720 Iskander ballistic missile with a different motor. Even China has a better prototype. They cannot glide nor maneuver. Their tail fins are mostly useless.
Putin did a little better. He never built any wonder weapons. He just lied and said that he has them and there were plenty of people eagerly repeating his lies and urging deference to Russia based on these lies.
“America is toast because Russia has Hype Sonic Missiles!”
Can’t keep the lie up if you actually have to use the weapon though.