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Personally... I have absolutely no idea why people are specifically drawn to german subjects.. and to be honest.. i can't even recall when I actually did buy a German armoured vehicle. ( i did buy 2 softskins recently.. the tamiya 1/35 kubelwagen, their Horch 1a, and recently the revell 1/72 Famo )
To be honest, I haven't even made a Tiger or Panther in 1/35 ever in my life.. nor do I intent to.
eventually though.. for everything the Germans did throw at the allied forces.. they got something back in return....
Panzer IV - Sherman
Panther - Pershing
Tiger - Comet/ Centurion
Opel Blitz - GMC CCKW
Kubelwagen - Jeep
Schimmwagen - DUKW
and the list goes on and on....
eventually, the Germans wouldn't have been able to keep up research and production of newer vehicles, while in the US, research and development could continue unhindered...
I would have to disagree with that statement. Although rockets were used in warfare by the British (the rockets red glare) in the war of 1812, and designs go back even further than that, you are aware of where the U.S. rocket and jet technology came from right? Read on:
The foremost authority on rocketry, outside the United States, was Dr. Hermann Oberth, a Hungarian-born (Transylvanian) German. Near the end of 1923, he published his famous work, "The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space," the genesis for considerable discussion regarding rocket propulsion. From 1926-30, Oberth experimented with liquid rocket propellants. He also worked as an advisor to the company making a film called, "Girl in the Moon," which increased interest in the potential of rocketry in Germany.
In the Spring of 1930, a young Wernher von Braun assisted Oberth in his early experiments in testing a liquid-fueled rocket stage with about 15 pounds of thrust. In September 1930, Oberth returned to a teaching post in Romania while Von Braun continued experiments under the sponsorship of the German Society for Space Travel. During July and August 1932, the society impressed officers of the German Army Ordnance by successfully firing a rocket to a height of 200 feet. As a result, the German Army formalized the rocket development program. In 1937 Von Braun was named technical director of the Peenemuende Rocket Center where he and his growing team of specialists worked on the development of the V-2 rocket, the first of which was launched in 1942. Some historians would later estimate that by the end of World War II, the Germans had fired nearly 3,000 V-2 weapons against England and other targets.
As the war ended, the United States was interested in the technical capability of the Germans, and a team of American scientists was dispatched to Europe to collect information and equipment related to German rocket progress. Arrangements made under "Project Paperclip" enabled the German rocket specialists to come to the United States to initiate advances in American rocketry.
Strictly technologically speaking, German scientists were ahead of the game in many aspects.
