Talk:Allied technological cooperation during World War II

Contribution

If you know relavent information please make contributions to this page as I'm sure that there are hundreds of other examples of the articles title than the number i have managed to come up with for the base line article. Siman 17:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I was surprised that no mention of the Tizard Mission. --jmb (talk) 10:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I've added a bit abut it in the second para. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.251.192 (talk) 12:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Axis article?

Any thoughts on adding an Axis Forces equivalent to this article or, possible, including both in the same? I favor the former, but figured it would be worth discussing.--Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 17:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Soviet AWD trucks

USSR created 6x6 truck - ZIS-36 - before war, but hadn't enough time to develop it and begin mass production, so Studebaker was indeed first mass 6x6 truck. Also, USSR wanted to produce diesel engine for truck, but had no enough time and decided to build licensied Detroit Diesel 71 series engines, but Winter War led to trade embargo. During WWII USSR imported most technologies of this engines, but Cold War stopped this process and soviet engineers developed this engine for mass production by themselves. GM 4-71 and 6-71 became base for YaAZ-204 and 206 respectively which were produced in 1947-1993 [1]Ходок (talk) 14:06, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Bias

This article, is Anglo-American biased in general, and heavily favors the UK as the benefactor in specific. Undoubtedly, there had to have been more technological cooperation amongst the Allies in general, and in specific there had to be as many examples of American technology being the benefactor of British. Also, the part about British nuclear scientists, seems to omit the fact that when the British scientists first saw the scope and magnitude of the American project, they concluded the British equivalant was markedly behind. In general, this article is insightful and interesting, but it favors the US and UK all-around, and the UK even more so. Jersey John (talk) 08:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Well if you'd like to state to what extent the British benefited from US technical innovation then feel free to add it. However, the only US-devised technical innovations that I can think of that the British benefited from were the DUKW and the LVT. All the other significant new stuff came from this side of the pond, or else originated here, such as the proximity fuze. The US's main technical contribution was in the further development and subsequent mass production of the stuff that was thought up in the UK.

As for the other 'Allied' countries, many had little technical base, so their contributions were, by necessity, minor. For the Soviet Union their technical contribution, at least to the Western side of the war, was negligible. Name one WWII Soviet-devised innovation that was later adopted by many other countries. I can't think of one. Here's a list of the British ones:

APDS - anti-tank round

Hobart's Funnies - specialised armoured vehicles

Microwave radar - (i.e., modern) radar

H2S radar - just about every radar system in the world is based on this scanning system

PPI - see above

Whittle jet engine

HEAT - anti-tank round

Liberty ship - based on an original British design and request

LST - as above

Escort carrier

LCT - landing craft

Gyro gunsight - this made shooting down an enemy aircraft simple

ASDIC - now called sonar

Foxer - anti-acoustic torpedo noise-maker

Hedgehog - anti-submarine weapon

Early warning system - see Chain Home

GCI - radar-controlled interception of attacking aircraft by fighters

IFF - for use with above

Enigma - code breaking

Collossus - as above

Bore evacuator - used on tank guns

Thermal sleeve - as above

ECM - also Electronic warfare - see No. 100 Group RAF

Grand Slam bomb

Tallboy bomb

Bouncing bomb

GEE - later developed as LORAN

Oboe

Motor Torpedo Boat

FIDO - fog dispersal for airfields

Huff-Duff - high-frequency direction-finding for hunting U-boats

Bubble canopy

Plastic explosive

Littlejohn adaptor

Squid

Penicillin

Power-operated aircraft gun turrets

Disney bomb

Rolls-Royce Merlin

Malcolm hood

US ones;

Bazooka

LVT

DUKW

Walkie Talkie

Fido - acoustic torpedo

There are probably others but ATM off-hand I can't think of any more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.57.101 (talk) 13:56, 22 October 2011 (UTC)