Talk:The Other Side/@comment-217.237.150.57-20180902140142/@comment-2A02:810B:1040:5120:2876:C2C4:8203:7498-20190111175647

Germany never prioritised nuclear weapons. In fact, uranium they did have from Belgium instead went into production of APCR rounds for MK103s, which remained experimental though. Not that they didnt know the stuff was radioactive and could be used for bombs. Also there are still plenty of fields were german technology was indeed superior, for example engine technology (the DB 600 was upgraded throughout the war and typically was at least equal or better to equivalent allied engines, or the HL 230 engine, which was similarly pretty much the most powerful tank powerplant (with the exception of prototypes like the Maus), while still being very light and exhibiting good reliability (failures were usually in the transmission due to excessive weight of german tanks, especially the Tiger II)), armor piercing rounds (the PzGr. 39 was a APCBC-HE round, substantially better than anything the allies at the time used, with the US and UK only developing comparable rounds mid-war, and the Russians post-war based on german blueprints, up to then relying on uncapped shells prone to shattering, similarly the PzGr 40 APCR round was also copied by all allied nations (except the UK), the germans had practically pioneered the technology), not to mention rocket propullsion (Me 163, V2 rockets), hollow charge munitions and a whole bunch of other things. Either way, there is some merit to german technological superiority. Of course it came at the cost of complexity and thus production numbers and resources, not to mention the black hole that was the billion dead end projects germany got into all the time.