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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
No the main problem was that the Germans refused to give up on obsolete designs, they tried to wring everything out of those designs instead of allowing the manufacturers design and build new aircraft,
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The problem here is that as any production guy you'll tell you you can't very easily set up new or convert old production lines. It forces you to entirely stop production at that plant for months. The best you can do is do incremential changes to existing models. That's why the me-109 was in production from what, 1936 through 1945, even if the 45 model had little to do with the 36 model, bar the name.
If you look at a list of German planes you see an incredible amount of types in service or others in low-production/prototypes only. This was a madness that Germany economy could not afford at all and tried to stop.
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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
also political interference was crippling the RLM, as mentioned as an example Heinkel wanted to decouple the engines of the He-177 Greif and redesign it back to a four nascelled heavy bomber but Goring forbade it, ironically Heinkel did produce a four nascelled He-277 and its performance was extraordinary,
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This was a good idea but then again the economy was in such a bad position that it could't afford. Besides swithching production again would entirely stop production of the only half-decent heavy bomber for months.
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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
the Messrschmitt Me-264 "Amerika Bomber" which flew in mid 1942 could in theory fly up to five tonnes of ordnance from Poland into the industrial heartland of the Soviet Union east of the Urals, Messerscmitt had planned to build up to 2000 a year, this how ever meant scrapping the Me-109 again Goring forbade this.
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Your last paragraph responds to this: priority given to Reich Defence against the Allied Bombers.
But even so, you have no idea how dispersed and how far Soviet industry was in Siberia, 20% of oil coming in from the Sakahlin Islands close to Japan! All the rest was imensely dispersed at locations that became know only postwar when the Americans started their U-2 overflights. Again, remember that even under heavy bombing Germany managed to increase production, so why would things work different for the Germans with a very much weaker program and no P-51s to escort them?