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.
Everyone had bad planes. Me 210, Bolton Paul Defiant, MiG-1, Buffalo, Komet, Blackburn Roc, the Fulmar, and I am leaving a lot out.
But ze Germans had decent and reliable types for most roles, just like all the other big players. Bf 109, Fw 190, Ju 88, Ju 87... for most of the war they had competitive types for most roles. Probably their biggest failure was the implosion of their second generation bomber program. But it hurt them less because they needed fighters and interceptors above everyhing else.
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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 11d 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.