If Japan & Germany got defeated between January to December 1944 , how much naval,tank, weapons could the Soviets and Wallies get from them?

[CaptainCalvert]

One Maus each - some assembly required.

Didn't the V2 need to be more or less completely redesigned to be useful for US purposes or did I get distracted while watching Youtube?

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

One Maus each - some assembly required.

Didn't the V2 need to be more or less completely redesigned to be useful for US purposes or did I get distracted while watching Youtube?

More or less. As with the Fi103 it wasn't practical to do a precise clone of the machine. To many tiny differences in screw sizes, pipe diameters, thread pitch, alloys, ect.. That all adds up to a engineering mess. If you are going to do the technical work to redo all that with US machine standards then you may as well rework the general engineering as well. While the appearance was very similar the JB-2 was really a next generation of the Fe103 speed weapon. It was the same with the 1950s US rockets, or in the USSR. The venerable SCUD missile was in some respects a V2 reworked extensively into a new model. We also must remember rocketry in the US did not end with Goddadrs 1920 experiments. He went on for another couple decades and others were picking up the ball as well. A variety of production missiles and one off designs of post 1945 were conceptualized and speced for prototype before the US Army or Air Force shot its first war booty V2 or settled Braun into his US cottage.

 

[RanulfC]

A variety of production missiles and one off designs of post 1945 were conceptualized and speced for prototype before the US Army or Air Force shot its first war booty V2 or settled Braun into his US cottage.

it's an important point to make here that von Braun and company were brought to the US under essentially internment and kept in sub-standard quarters under armed guard and not allowed to leave without a guard detachment accompanying them. (And they were specifically not allowed to leave the base for any reason) Even when they were transferred to White Sands they were restricted to base and only allowed off base when accompanied by an armed guard.

The US was already ahead of the Germans in rocket research and were not at all impressed by the V1 or V2. They thought the V1 advantage of low cost and low technology could be useful in the invasion of Japan but no such plans were made for an Americanized "V2" until the Korean war broke out in the 1950 and the Redstone was essentially a copy of the V2 using US technology. Keep in mind that the original 'Plan" had been to keep the German scientist and engineers that were not recruited to private industry for about a decade and then let them go back to Germany once we were sure their knowledge was no longer useful to the Russians. It was never about using their knowledge or technology since the US already had better in most cases.

Randy