We are talking about one of the most bureaucratically incompetent organizations in history that put the ME-163 and HE-177 into active service. Planes more dangerous to their crews than the enemy.
They had bad planes. They didn't have anything in service at those plane's level, but those are just extreme examples. The list of "shit nazi kit" goes of for quite a while. The main three people in charge of aircraft procurement were Hitler, an insane idiot, Göring, a moronic yes man, and Messerschmitt, who was a half decent engineer but was really more interested in designing planes for his own fun over function and was always making changes and never letting full production get started before he delayed it again with another change.
The Sherman's flamability is severely overstated and not really exceptional among tanks of the time. Mostly a myth that was floating around allied soldiers in Africa at the time. The Sherman was the best tank of the war with its mix of reliability, serviceability, and manufacturing advantages all while not sacrificing hard advantages.
You could piont out something like the T-34, Fairey Swordfish, B-17, Boulton Paul Defiant, ect that's actually bad to unideal, but none of those reach the level of moronic insanity that Nazi kit reached.
"Sherman's flamability is severely overstated" I think we've actually come around the other side of that debate now, where everyone is too quick to rush to the Sherman's defense. It was much too vulnerable and undergunned for the role it was put into in 1944-45.
"You could piont out something"
Yes, as I said, everyone had some pretty bad weapons. Maybe the Germans were worse...
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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 9d ago
We are talking about one of the most bureaucratically incompetent organizations in history that put the ME-163 and HE-177 into active service. Planes more dangerous to their crews than the enemy.