Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "SdKfz 2 Kettenkrad: Germany's Halftrack Motorcycle" video.

  1. Because Germany was so low on fuel and the crappy engines - made of ersatz materials - had to be replaced by every 10 to 25 hours so they couldn't afford to let the 262 taxi. BTW, the US had been producing the Cletrac M2 Tractor as an aircraft tug fsince before the war and it featured an on-board air compressor and battery charging apparatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_High_Speed_Tractor
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  2. The US Quarter Ton and even the German Kubelwagen could go anywhere it could and carry a larger load while doing it. The Krauts stopped making them in 1944 for a reason - so NSU could produce something useful to the German war effort
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  3. Because the US Quarter Ton and even the German Kubelwagen could go anywhere it could and carry a greater load. PS - wars are not won by "coolness"
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  4.  @typxxilps  " But Mercedes came back out of the ashes" - Because of the Marshall Plan dollars " all the innovative weapons became part of american post war developments." Like? List some. Here's news for you, Federov in Russia had designed the first assault rifle in 1916. "Von Braun" Was a major in the SS and a war criminal "There’s no question that he knew about the slave labor? He was in the underground plant at least 12 to 15 times. As I found out in the testimony that he gave for a war crimes trial in West Germany in 1969, he mentioned that he’d been through the underground sleeping quarters, which had been built in the tunnels in late 1943 for the concentration camp workers because the above-ground camp hadn’t been finished or hadn’t even really been started. And those underground accommodations were horrific. And he walked through that area and through the mining area." It's to the US's eternal disgrace that it employed him and white washed his record. And the A-4 was a development of concepts originated by Goddard "this Sonderkettenfahrzeug was used to toe and move the ME262 around" Yep, they towed the 262's around because they couldn't afford to burn the fuel and its crappy engines were full of ersatz materials so it had a time between overhauls of 10 to 25 hours and couldn't afford the engine time. By the way, the Gloster Meteor entered squadron service BEFORE the 262, making it the world's first operational jet aircraft ("The Gloster Meteor entered service on July 27, 1944, about two months before the Me 262")
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