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Originally Posted by billdan
@Kunama -- We only got to the moon because of the weapons research.....
That is correct, Hitler and his gang of thugs put the first rocket into space when developing the V2 rocket to bomb London. However the launch sites were quickly overrun by the allies after D-Day.
After the war the German rocket scientists never faced any criminal law courts as the Americans quickly whisked them away to the USA to help their military and create NASA.
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yup. 100% correct. NASA isn't an American brainchild, it's a German One. The Germans were way ahead of any other country when it came to lots of things:
1) heinkel he219 uhu - first plane to have ejection seats and advanced night time radar detection, certainly far ahead of anything the allies had at the time.
2) horton ho229 would have required a pressurised flight suit for operation - a first at the time.
3) horton ho229's stealth abilities - the US quietly took One back to US shores for investigation and secretly conducted test flights with it. You only have to compare the B2 stealth bomber to it to see where the Americans got the idea from...
4) directional targeting via radar (the Bismarck was way ahead of the field back in 1941 when it was really first used in warfare).
Germany was way ahead in biological warfare studies, and also nuclear studies too. The US cleaned up on that as well post war.
Another Six months and the Horton ho229 would have entered full production (given enough supplies) and would have caused serious issues for the British chain radar system - very fast object moving at a very low altitude, with radar defeating technology. They'd have been on top of the British before they knew what hit them!
Luft '46 tech was pretty radical.
Dave