Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

[Tiki Tom]

It’s hard to kill a good story. The speculations continue to be written about…

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36560537/die-glocke-nazi-bell-conspiracy/

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20210627-die-glocke-nazi/

And, of course, the more you deny something, the more likely that someone will claim a cover-up is going on.

 

[Trenchfriend]

It's possible, that the goofy Sack AS6 was a source of all the "flying discs" rumours.

Sack AS-6 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Trenchfriend]

Not a secret tech thing, but in general interesting.

I don't know, which way the "high-pressure hotsteam propulsion" of the German Navy went, after WW II, but it seems to be true, that they indroduced that principe in a too early state. The problems were seemingly not fully solved, althought Bismarck Class seemingly ran excellent, when compared to the Admiral Hipper Class.

It was not possible to give Bismarck Class dieselmotors at the time, they were build. Such big dieselmotors were still in development and could simply not be ordered from MAN.
The H Class battleships would have been surely equipped with diesemotors, during peace time. But would Adolf Hitler have allowed to build more than the first two, which started hulks were broken up very early in wartime??

And in an alternative timelime, wouldn't the US Navy have send complete Iowa-Class to hunt the H-Class down?

FOUR Iowa Class battleships with top-notch FCR against totally outdated Diesel Dreadnoughts!!

 

[Trenchfriend]

AND!

The Krupp "WOTAN" steel (Crome-Nickel steel) for the armor plates wasn't any wonderstuff.
It's pro was (and is) the fine weldabilty. That was the thing.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Tirpitz's 45 mm torpedo bulkhead, nickel-crome steel.

10:35

 

[Trenchfriend]

But it's a pity, that Admiral Scheer and Lützow/Deutschland didn't survive the end of war. I think, these fine diesel heavy cruisers would have served some more years in the cold war.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I still love the original tone!! So much more better than the german synchro on my VHS. Well done, National Geographic!

You can still feel, when Robert Ballard started to be desperate, that Bismarck was still in hiding anywhere and seemed to be more clever than the hunters.