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Originally Posted by August
The Germans did have some very quality weapons but not all of them were superior to their allied counterparts. Compare the bolt action Mauser to the Semi-auto Garand or the B17 or B29 to the He111 or Do17, The Stuka to the Sturmovik, even lowely "deuce and a half" to the Opel truck, never mind in naval technology, there are lots of areas where the Allies were just as good or better than what what the Germans fielded.
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Well, a more fair comparison between for the B29 would be the amerika bomber concepts and the He177. The B29 nevertheless and undoubtly is the pinnacle of WW2 era level bombers and was way ahead of any german design at that time. That aside it simply is a beautiful design.
The Stuka and the IL2 don't really fit either. The equivalent to the IL2 would be the Hs129. The IL2's main advantage was it's quantity, not nessecarily it's qualitites. They were shot down en masse. I do not think the russians employed a dedicated one engine dive bomber. The japanese Val and the american Dauntless and Helldiver are the only directly comparable aircraft coming to my mind.
A field where the allies really were way ahead of the germans were Radar technology (Magnetron) and code breaking. The naval field in general is debateable, Radar and tactics were the US biggest assets in this area (aside pure quantity), though US carriers were the best in the world without a doubt.