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Originally Posted by lesmw0sec
Some years back, I spoke to Dr. Bill Penley who told me that he had the job of investigating the captured Wurzburg kit. He said that his first impression was of how beautifully made everything was. I have a magnetic detector from a German sea mine (which still works perfectly) and is built like a Swiss watch.
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There are more angles to this though that in the heat of total war precision does seem to be an ideal to beware of. The simplistic approach of Russian (and possibly American) mass production did seem to overwhelm the arguably superior German technology. It has been said that some of the more precision made German guns readily jammed under poor environmental conditions.