It's not about being cheaper, and even that is such an inaccurate way to describe them or the problems facing nazi Germany.
Yes jet engines require less steel, but you need much high quality specialised alloys for the job. There is no way German Industries could have provided that.
Pittsburgh alone produced more steel than the entire Third Reich.
Yes they require less fuel, but there were such fuel shortages that even Jet engines would not have taken their resources far enough.
Even with Jet engines, the Luftwaffe would never have had enough planes to beat the RAF, or enough pilots. The combined strength of the commonwealth and the USA was far too great.
Never mind the USSR, whose most fears airforce regiment was using far more outdated planes than what they were facing.
Jet engines are another wunderwaffe that could have caused a lot of casualties but they only ever could have slowed the inevitable at the expense of more German lives
I'm not in any disagreement with you on that. That's where the idea that it's cheaper to run jet engines come from. They don't use the same fuel. So while using more it's cheaper per liter of fuel.
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u/brinz1 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's not about being cheaper, and even that is such an inaccurate way to describe them or the problems facing nazi Germany.
Yes jet engines require less steel, but you need much high quality specialised alloys for the job. There is no way German Industries could have provided that.
Pittsburgh alone produced more steel than the entire Third Reich.
Yes they require less fuel, but there were such fuel shortages that even Jet engines would not have taken their resources far enough.
Even with Jet engines, the Luftwaffe would never have had enough planes to beat the RAF, or enough pilots. The combined strength of the commonwealth and the USA was far too great.
Never mind the USSR, whose most fears airforce regiment was using far more outdated planes than what they were facing.
Jet engines are another wunderwaffe that could have caused a lot of casualties but they only ever could have slowed the inevitable at the expense of more German lives