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Old 29th Mar 2020, 6:29 pm   #27
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Default Re: Wurzburg Radar

In the end, the US approach of repeatable, consistent mass production was the right approach for a long war- UK industry proved unable to produce precision components like magnetron blocks, supercharger vanes and propeller pitch mechanisms consistently in large numbers, so the US was contracted to produce these even before it came into the war. Snooty people liked to sneer at Henry Ford's cars, but the industrial philosophy that produced them was a game-changer.

The German approach of trying to out-spec. everyone else with expensive and labour-intensive precision might have been a good way to start a short war but the longer it went on, the more it would lose out in the replacement quantities game.
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