Originally posted by StellarX
You have accused me of that in the past and you have seemingly forgotten how that turned out.
you don't need to kill equipment and men on the front while fully deployed -
Serious? You mean you can do something like 'strategic bombing'? OMG. If i had not the recourse of sarcasm....
which killed Japan's war economy and curtailed their fleet's mobility.
Japan had no war economy or economy to speak of anyways and frankly Japan could never build enough of anything to win that war with; they were going
to win it with what they had up to say the end of 1942 and that's about it.
let me introduce the KSK, because, frankly all we got is photos and the KSK is therefore just as credible as the rest:
www.bibliotecapleyades.net...
The early models also attempted to test out a rather large experimental gun installation- the twin 60 mm KSK
(KraftStrahlKanone, Strong Ray Cannon) which operated off the Triebwerk for power. It has been suggested that the ray from this weapon made it a
laser, but it was not. The Germans called it an “anachronism” gun - not belonging to that time period or out of place.
When a Vril 7 was downed by the Russians in 1945 a similar underbelly mounted KSK gun was destroyed with debris recovered from the battle site.
Postwar the strange metal balls and tungsten spirals that made up
the weapon could not be identified. But recently it has been speculated that the Triebwerk-connected balls
formed cascade oscillators that were connected to a long barrel-shrouded transmission rod wrapped in a
precision tungsten spiral, or coil to transmit a powerful energy burst suitable to pierce up to 4 in (100 mm) of enemy armor. The heavy gun
installation, however, badly destabilized the disc and in subsequent Haunebu models lighter MG and MK cannon were supposedly installed.
even without such a toy, the ability to land anywhere would make targetting them a bit harder than destroying jet fighters on the airfield, comparable
to targetting V2 vs. V1 sites, and i don't understand why you brush that off as if it was a minor difference.
putting bombs
on target will necessarily cripple any opponent, the reson why strategic bombing generally sucked was its poor accuracy combined
with concealed or sheltered high value targets (in europe at least ). the fact that germany did not rely much on ships did not help a lot either
because chasing locomotives is much harder to boot and they normally don't *sink* (unless they fall off a river bridge), and can therefore be
retrieved and restorred with comparable ease.
if you honestly believe the B29 did not make much of a difference, you are missing an important detail, aside from transporting the a-bombs to target,
of course: aerial mining.
on a side note: US subs sank more ships with mines than with torpedoes, at a fraction of the cost and at minimal danger to themselves...it's just not
sexy and therefore seldom told.
as for the 'no economy' comment, d'uh well they orderd their navy at the nearest hardware store, right, and their notorious lack of fuel had
nothing to do with sunk tankers. i'm not debating whether they could have won the war, they had no chance but they could have commited more forces
provided their merchant shipping had worked as advertised.
there is no way to guard targets scattered around the globe against an *aircraft*, in the widest sense, with global reach, you can't protect every
ship with fighters (as if they could do anything against a UFO with the cited capabilites) and ships are a weak link when you're fighting on one end
of the world, producing tons of war material on the other and shipping just as many desperately needed resources in between.
i'm just trying to make some sense of the scenario. the bottom line is that such tech remained unused, for all we know, and if it was used
sporadically, it happened on a miniscule scale only. the most plausible reason is that this stuff never existed, of course, if you want to speculate
you'll have to come up with sound reasons and claims that VTOL capabilies are irrelevant or that they were probably useless because other systems
(namely jet fighters) were vulnerable upon takeoff and landing do not hold water.
if they existed and if the reason for their underuse wasn't technical (in which case they should have still recon'ed D-Day preparations, f-ex. and
acted accordingly) in nature, then political reasons would be my next bet, read splinter fractions, vulnerabilty as you implied by your comparison to
jet fighters does not square well with the claimed specs, though.
anyways:
Well we do not know if these UFOs in fact had weapon systems at all and it's not logical to assume that because they made breakthroughs in one field
that they could also operate weapons on those aircraft or had found ways to aim such weapons. You are the one leaping the conclusions without even
giving us a date and number of UFOs with which types of weapons could have possible shut down the North Atlantic trade routes better than a much
larger deployment of regular Luftwaffe strike planes could. Would these UFOs be able to operate in that bad weather any better than regular planes?
Could the support facilities be built in Norway? Frankly it is all speculation ( mine included) but if you want to shoot down theories your going to
have to do more than just raise objections without merit.
all of these points are irrlevant due to two factors, namely endurance and range. whatever the Luftwaffe did, they were limited by range, which means
the area they covered was smaller therefore easier to control. if you can freely choose location and time of your attack, weather is less important
and any countermeasure quickly becomes ineffective. you can't guard the entire world at the same time, but that's exactly what you'd face if your
opponent had these 'vril' disks.
regarding your statement about antigravity craft alledgedly operated by 3 countries, wouldn't they make conventional forces completely obsolete? if
yes, why would the situation in WW2 have been compeltely different? the only way to explain the situation, aside form proclaiming it a hoax is the
inclusion of segregated circles using the tech against everyone else, isn't it? that said i don't see why you tried to invalidate my notion of
'splinter fractions'.
PS: if i came of as agressive, i apologize, but afaics, saying this kind of tech would not have made a strategic difference is akin to claiming that
even a few SSNs operating for kriegsmarine would not have mad much of a difference.