Well, the french aero industry BEFORE the war was far from a model of perfection either, fact is it was quite a mess due to nationalizations, and corruption. Producing an plethora of ineffective models and with only a few models that could have been useful if production had been focussed on them.
Then with 4 years of occupation, during which rest of the world aero technology went from 600hp piston engines to jet age, while french engineers were still working on paper about how to improve their VG-30s (example).
I can understand the postwar French project monsters, they just had no clue where to go, all new stuff to catch on, what prewar stuff could be worth keeping (not much)... Ect...
Also the same messy prewar state procurement system was in place.
Only now there was some resources. So yes some of it went into these useless monsters, and certainly to keep engineers working and catch up even with errors (one learns a lot from falling if he stand up again).
In fact i'm surprised how well it recovered from the complete mess it was in, once the state reorganized the procurement system and some worthy names began to appear.
(Edit: Was writing when our distinguished Archibald posted with a much detailled response)
Then with 4 years of occupation, during which rest of the world aero technology went from 600hp piston engines to jet age, while french engineers were still working on paper about how to improve their VG-30s (example).
I can understand the postwar French project monsters, they just had no clue where to go, all new stuff to catch on, what prewar stuff could be worth keeping (not much)... Ect...
Also the same messy prewar state procurement system was in place.
Only now there was some resources. So yes some of it went into these useless monsters, and certainly to keep engineers working and catch up even with errors (one learns a lot from falling if he stand up again).
In fact i'm surprised how well it recovered from the complete mess it was in, once the state reorganized the procurement system and some worthy names began to appear.
(Edit: Was writing when our distinguished Archibald posted with a much detailled response)
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