He didn’t have any intention of hitting a target, the opposite was the case, his invention (made in 1904!) should avoid ship collision and that’s what Radar is still used for today.
Radar, in WW 2, or today, gives a range and bearing to the target. In ship avoidance of a collision, radar tells the ship's crew using it where the potential ship they could collide with is exactly. Hülsmeyer's telemobilescope doesn't do that. It gives you an audible tone that tells you, you are getting close to something. It doesn't give you a range or bearing.
You can highly question every fact you don’t like, note that the Luftwaffe commanders preferred one 262 over ten FW190.
Irrelevant appeal to popularity.
Same is true for the P80, the turbines disintegrated and it was by far the most dangerous airplane of the US at its time. This is not unecpected when you develop something completely new. Similar to the proplems with the M262, many pilots wrecked the engines with fas load changes, and it took time to adapt to a new technology.
Not true. While the US had issues with jet engine reliability, theirs were getting much better far faster than Germany could manage given that the US had access to high temperature alloys as well as component manufacture. Engines weren't the only issue with the Me 262. Brakes, hydraulics, flight controls, landing gear, inability to get pressurization to work, were among other problems the Germans faced with little way to resolve these.
Of course it mattered, new weapons need new tactics and the Germans had to go through the process. The P80 would have had the same problem, if the Americans had managed to finish it earlier, but they didn't. Talking about imaginary superior jets the Americans didn't have during WW2 doesn't help.
The US had the edge there too. They had established a fighter group of three squadrons at Muroc field flying the P-59 starting at the end of 1942. One of the purposes of this was to give pilots and ground crew hands on experience dealing with jets and to work out differences in procedures and operations that came with using jets.
The P-80 flew with few issues that were quickly resolved. There was no need for a near total redesign of the flight surfaces, redesign of the landing gear, etc., as occurred on the Me 262. There were few issues with the other systems on the plane as well. Also, the P-80 had, right from the start, a working pressurized cockpit that the Me 262 lacked. That meant that it could easily exceed the operational ceiling of a 262 regardless of how high a 262 might be able to theoretically climb to.
Initial reliability problems with the engine in the P-80 were sorted out pretty quickly. Four early YP-80's were flown from Lockheed's plant to Muroc field where they were flown to 500 hours air time each in short order.
Bottomline: The P-80 would enter service and get much better much faster than any jet the Germans had or would put into service in 1945 or 46.
The B29 came years later, the carrier of the He 177 had already ended at this time. The 177 was the first fielded airplane with such a system and the Americans had several years to develop an improved version of that...
The B-29 is not comparable to the He 177. The Henkel bomber is compatible in type to the B-24. The B-29 is more in the category of the Me 264 . The He 177's remote gun turrets, like those on say, the Arado 240, Fw 191, and a number of other German planes were all pretty much a bust.
The US system is nothing like what the Germans attempted which was a simple electro-mechanical linkage system that rotated and aimed the turret from a remote location. There was no lead computing gunsight, no fire control computer, no ability to allow one of several gunners to operate one or several turrets. On the Henkel, almost all the remote gun system was removed because it didn't work and was replaced with manned positions.
Quite a long text but I don’t get the point. Let’s just say, a convoy which is slower and produces loud noises has higher chances of being hit by a submarine.
Let's not. A U-boat was designed to be primarily a surface attack system. Submergence was for evasion and escape, not offensive operation. If driven down, a U-boat lost its effectiveness as an offensive system.
Quite a week argument, I don’t see any evidence for the M24 beeing superior than the Zaunkönig. The Geier on the other hand played in another league, it could not be distracted by a decoy because it’s active sonar aimed a the biggest target.
The intended use of the two is completely different. The USN had few German naval targets to engage other than a U-boat. The U-boat couldn't use a noise decoy because that gave up its greatest advantage. For the USN, they needed a weapon that could seek out a relatively quiet submarine and attack it. Mk 24 Fido did that quite well.
On the other hand, the Germans wanted something that could be used against surface ships. The problem with their weapons was they were relatively slow and short ranged.
