A couple of comments/

First, we had some extremely complex electromechanical devices in wide use.  The Norden bomb sight comes to mind.

Second, for quite a long time the life expectancy of any war plane in WW II was quite short, so the complex equipment did not have to last very long.

Clare. N2RJB

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 7:13 PM Tim <timsamm@gmail.com> wrote:
As Stalin supposedly said "Quantity has a quality all its own."

The Germans were making a few Mercedes Benz's, we were making lots of Chevy's ...

Tim
N6CC

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM Hubert Miller <kargo_cult@msn.com> wrote:

I felt initially that "poor us", so stuck with conventional 1930s tech, in second place. But then i thought about the ART-13 10 channel Autotune ( automatic retuning ) aircraft transmitter ( dating to 1939 ), the BC-348 aircraft receiver, the BC-1000 FM backpack radio, microwave radar, High Frequency direction finding with CRT display, radar jamming equipment, proximity fuse anti aircraft shells, and so on, PLUS early models of computer to decipher German codes. German workmanship is impressive,but...at some point you have to do a cost - benefit analysis and realize a whole lot of wonderfully mechanically engineered stuff is bound to have a rather short service life...


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