Apollo11
Matrix Legion of Merit

Posts: 24082
Joined: 6/7/2001 From: Zagreb, Croatia Status: offline
|
Hi all, quote:
ORIGINAL: BLUESBOB Thought I'd start another fantasy thread. I was thinking, what if Germany was able to smuggle plans for the Junkers Ju390 to Japan, and that Japan produced them in numbers. That's the heavy bomber that flew from France to within 12 miles of the U.S. east coast during secret trials. Man, wouldn't that change the complexity of the game! Japanese 4E's able to hit Pearl from Truk! That wouldn't help Japan at all... it was just experiment that didn't have much military use (same as other civilian airframe reconstructions)... What would help Japan is (but luckily for humanity the Germany-Japan copperation was almost nonexistent): #1 Radar technology. Germany had "Freya" and "Wurzburg" mobile radars made to detect airborne targets and "Seetakt" ship radars in 1930's. Late war airborne radar technogy would also be very useful to Japan. #2 Tank technology. Japanese tanks were miserable. #3 Infantry weapons. Japanese infantry weapons were, to say the least, cumbersome and although Germany relied on old 1898 carabine for most of it's soldiers it was better rifle than Japanese one (and there is MG-34 and MG-42 of course)! #4 Aircraft technology. I will not go Me-262 route: Me-109, FW-190, Ju-88 would be sufficient... Leo "Apollo11"
_____________________________
Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance! A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE
|