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The Ho-229 reconstruction was a farce. The people who put it out did the same thing on how Japanese \'secret aircraft\
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The Ho-229 reconstruction was a farce. The people who put it out did the same thing on how Japanese \\\'secret aircraft\\\" would have deafeated the allied invasion etc etc etc. It was just another wunderwaffe worship show. Popular television shows like that are completely worthless for anything except casual amusement of the general public and ridicule by people who actually know something about the subject. The key here is that their \\\'reconstruction\\\' was unflyable. By the way, the reason for the low RCS wasn\\\'t anything concerning the design but simply that it was made out of wood. Any wooden aircraft shows similar reductions and the British had been flying such aircraft since 1941.
You are wrong about the B-35 and B-49. I suggest you read the technical evaluations and SACs of the aircraft. Symington\\\'s preferences had nothing to do with the decision to scrap the project. What killed both aircraft was that they were too unstable to make bombing runs, they were very hard to build and expensive to procure, they were exceptionally vulnerable to even mnor combat damage and they were structurally incapable of carrying nuclear weapons. The conspiracy nuts like to find \\\'hidden reasons\\\' for their cancellation because they were cool aircraft but the truth is they were simply unfit for service.
I also have great reservations about the inclusion of the German supertanks but the Maus did at least exist, was sent out to fight the Russians and it sort-of worked until it fell through a bridge. The rest were indeed just flights of fancy and I don\\\'t think they should be included in an article on the \\\"real world\\\". Perhaps what is needed is an entry in the literatire page that has words to the effect \\\"there are lots of books describing Nazi super-weapons which collectively have the information value of a soggy cornflake. They\\\'re all fiction and depend on a circle of authors quoting each other while trying to devise bigger and meaner-looking weapons to promote sales of their latest flight of fancy. A \\\"real world\\\" article should, I think, be restricted to weapons that actually saw service in the real world and had a marked advantage over their rivals. About the only ones I can think of that qualify are the MG-213C (which oddly never gets the attention it deserves), the X-7 anti-tank missile and the mine-clearing robot mini-tank. Just possibly the Type XXI submarine might qualify but its a stretch.
You are wrong about the B-35 and B-49. I suggest you read the technical evaluations and SACs of the aircraft. Symington\\\'s preferences had nothing to do with the decision to scrap the project. What killed both aircraft was that they were too unstable to make bombing runs, they were very hard to build and expensive to procure, they were exceptionally vulnerable to even mnor combat damage and they were structurally incapable of carrying nuclear weapons. The conspiracy nuts like to find \\\'hidden reasons\\\' for their cancellation because they were cool aircraft but the truth is they were simply unfit for service.
I also have great reservations about the inclusion of the German supertanks but the Maus did at least exist, was sent out to fight the Russians and it sort-of worked until it fell through a bridge. The rest were indeed just flights of fancy and I don\\\'t think they should be included in an article on the \\\"real world\\\". Perhaps what is needed is an entry in the literatire page that has words to the effect \\\"there are lots of books describing Nazi super-weapons which collectively have the information value of a soggy cornflake. They\\\'re all fiction and depend on a circle of authors quoting each other while trying to devise bigger and meaner-looking weapons to promote sales of their latest flight of fancy. A \\\"real world\\\" article should, I think, be restricted to weapons that actually saw service in the real world and had a marked advantage over their rivals. About the only ones I can think of that qualify are the MG-213C (which oddly never gets the attention it deserves), the X-7 anti-tank missile and the mine-clearing robot mini-tank. Just possibly the Type XXI submarine might qualify but its a stretch.
