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What if they had our manufacturing technology in WW2


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I often wonder how a carbon fiber skinned CNC machined aluminum framed P-51D would be capable of doing? I'm betting over 550mph. What do you guys think about other planes with current technology. Would the Germans have won the war? What about the mighty Zero?

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Well, the Germans kinda had the upper hand in manufacturing quality in the first place, so this might actually work against it (supposing all nations got the bump in technology)

 

Clearly it would be the Soviet Union benefitting most from the better manufacturing quality, since they were the ones suffering most from poor quality production aircraft in the first place. They would also stand to gain the most from increased use of light weight materials, since most Soviet designs were needlessly heavy, especially early in the war. If all Soviet Union production aircraft could  have been made to perform as well as the carefully built prototypes or even better, then the German pilots would more or less have lost their technological advantage quite early in the war.

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