I get what you are saying and I know I am being that guy but there has been a lot of historical inaccuracies that continue to this day in your post.
Whatt you mean by better. Doctrinally I’d say the allies were may more advanced. German vehicles (including planes)broke down more required way more labor to repair. In fact most of the german army was horse drawn. Most German “wonder weapons” had huge glaring downsides that made them impractical and as you pointed out were fielded in small numbers because it was a lot of last ditch not ready or well thought out things. German jets could not stay in the air long. And if we look at non jets German planes arguably were worse than allied fighters. P-47 did better at higher altitude had an easier time to kill other fighters due to armament of its german counter parts and could take a beating like a redheaded stepchild the likes of which would destroy German fighters.
German tanks broke down a lot and could not move great distances. On the subject of tanks, sherman’s were not ment to fight tanks this was before the USA adopted the main battle tank. But they could go farther and faster on the same amount of tread of a German tank and had comparable armor to a tiger due to armor slope. Just didn’t have the gun the german tanks had.
Meanwhile allied advancements in tech were way less showy. Radio communication advancements, time on target math, radar, gyro stabilized turrets, proximity fueses… I could go on for example US artillery was just leagues faster than Germany could ever hope to be.
Reading your post I’m reminded of the Shwerer Gustav which were the biggest canons ever made, shot a 7 tonne 3.6m projectile and obliterated basically any target of the time… Objectively impressive.
However… the Germans only built 2 of them and it took so long that the battle they were explicitly designed for was well over by the time they were completed, only 1 was ever fired and wasn’t really needed for that battle either, they cost $7m Reichsmarks each (~$62 mil USD in 2025), 1400+ tonnes of steel, required a crew of 2,750 and two flak battalions for protection (~2000 additional men). Not so great when you read the fine-print.
I get what you are saying and I know I am being that guy but there has been a lot of historical inaccuracies that continue to this day in your post.
Whatt you mean by better. Doctrinally I’d say the allies were may more advanced. German vehicles (including planes)broke down more required way more labor to repair. In fact most of the german army was horse drawn. Most German “wonder weapons” had huge glaring downsides that made them impractical and as you pointed out were fielded in small numbers because it was a lot of last ditch not ready or well thought out things. German jets could not stay in the air long. And if we look at non jets German planes arguably were worse than allied fighters. P-47 did better at higher altitude had an easier time to kill other fighters due to armament of its german counter parts and could take a beating like a redheaded stepchild the likes of which would destroy German fighters.
German tanks broke down a lot and could not move great distances. On the subject of tanks, sherman’s were not ment to fight tanks this was before the USA adopted the main battle tank. But they could go farther and faster on the same amount of tread of a German tank and had comparable armor to a tiger due to armor slope. Just didn’t have the gun the german tanks had.
Meanwhile allied advancements in tech were way less showy. Radio communication advancements, time on target math, radar, gyro stabilized turrets, proximity fueses… I could go on for example US artillery was just leagues faster than Germany could ever hope to be.
Reading your post I’m reminded of the Shwerer Gustav which were the biggest canons ever made, shot a 7 tonne 3.6m projectile and obliterated basically any target of the time… Objectively impressive.
However… the Germans only built 2 of them and it took so long that the battle they were explicitly designed for was well over by the time they were completed, only 1 was ever fired and wasn’t really needed for that battle either, they cost $7m Reichsmarks each (~$62 mil USD in 2025), 1400+ tonnes of steel, required a crew of 2,750 and two flak battalions for protection (~2000 additional men). Not so great when you read the fine-print.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav