Unfortunately, one cannot stand in the way of progress... Great construction of this parody Rob! 555! :-)

A designer always has to make compromises over speed vs armament vs armor protection. Amazing the work that went on while Germany's borders were shrinking and infrastructure being destroyed.

Yes, and that was one of the main reasons germany lost WW2. Hitler delayed many secret weapons for the first two years of the war, Hitler did not put the German nation on a full-war footing until 1943, Hitler did not allow the use of women in the workforce to be significant but relied on slave labor instead, there was duplication of effort among the services, Speer's hands were tied when it came to SS technology and the fight over materials and manpower, research under war conditions was absolutely insane with allocations of men and materials to build wasteful weapons of war that could never succeed, and even realizing the mistakes of the Uranium Bomb research in 1944, could not fabricate that nor the larger Molecular Bomb (H-Bomb) spoken of by Goering at the Nuremberg Trials. Germany instead opted to send uranium to Japan by U-boat transfer for their secret program at Konan, Korea (Genzai Bakudan). The Germans pushed science to its absolute limit and beyond into SS weapons that have no rival today: disc aircraft, EMG propulsion, Mercury-ion propulsion, spaceship designs to reach Aldebaran, EM wave disruptor cannon, force fields, unmanned flattend turbojet, spherical, and manned disc weapons with electrostatic weapons and firedamp aerosol dispensers (Foo Fighters, aka WNF Feuerball, AEG Kugelwaffen, ZW Kugelblitz), advanced metallurgy with Luftschwamm, desiccator gases, resurrection technology, the D.IX wonderdrug, the firedamp weapon, and even energy weapons/thermitic heat wave weapons.