The Bismarck Was a Waste

Real Clear History ^ | January 16, 2020 | Steve Feinstein

[Rurudyne]

Considering what Stalin did to his friends....

[Rurudyne]

Like “What if the Left cared about corruption when it was their guys what done it?”

Of something more likely to actually happen like “who would win in a fight between Optimus Prime and Superman?”

[Rurudyne]

“Or” ... dumb typos

Also, truck, not monkey

[Captain Walker]

The Germans are what I like to call Smart morons. The V2 program is a perfect example. They spent the money of the Manhattan Project on it roughly, and inaccurately delivered a tonnage of explosives on target roughly equal to less than two 1000 plane Eighth Air Force bombing raids. We could better their V2 sum total once a week, and even more during the later stage the war.

The V-2 was first fired against London in September of 1944, long past the point in time in which the Luftwaffe could launch a sizeable bombing raid against targets in the city.

Was there a better way for the Germans to bomb London?

(I'm not disputing your statistics, btw, and I'm certainly not defending the practice of bombing a soft target; I just don't see what other options were available to them.)

[SunkenCiv]

Friends, family members, allies, rivals, lackeys...

[Rurudyne]

A completely random thought: while both were over the top evil, between Der Wanker and Stalin it may have actually been somewhat safer (safer from the leader that is) to be a German minion than a Rooski minion.

[hoagy62]

For your entertainment....

Bismarck-Sabaton

[CodeToad]

“Code-breaking insights”

Actually, it was the Polish that gave the Brits the insights.

[Tallguy]

“Actually, it was the Polish that gave the Brits the insights.”

Yep. But it was the Brits that gave it to us.