I always thought that if Hitler were able to build large, long range bombers he could have won the war.
Of course there are all sorts of would have, should have. And when written the ways I just wrote it, it makes it sound like we are sad that he didn’t do these things.
That is not the case.
But it makes you wonder what tools are being made today that are going to fall into that age old problem of planning to fight the last war.
Personally, I think building jet fighters is going to soon be a waste of time. For the price of one jet, you could probably build a slew of unmanned aircraft that could swarm the air, and overwhelm the enemy.
But what do I know....
He would have won if..
He left the Russians alone.
ME262 is a fighter not a bomber - B17s & B24s had no chance
Finish off RAF before bombing London
I believe if the Germans had the means to bomb the huge soviet factories in the Ural mountains in 1942 it might have made Stalin sue for peace. There were gigantic metallurgical works around the closed city of Magnitogorsk (magnetic mountain) that the Germans were obsessed with destroying but were unable to reach with their bombers.
The USSR strategy of the 80s, when I did Officer Basic. Everything they ever made that would fire a round or drop a bomb was still in use. We were told the new M1 battle tank would have to face over 10:1 superiority in numbers. The guys training in them felt it would not be a problem. During the Battle of Messina Ridge we discovered 10:1 was way pessimistic.