This isn't necessarily about just equipment designs (since we already have some old threads about the worstest warships/tanks/whatever), but general brainfarts by someone at the top.
My (first) nomination would be the WW2 Volksjäger program. By the end of the second world war, Germany had this idea to
A. produce the cheapest jet aircraft, out of the cheapest possible stuff, with the most unskilled labour (often slaves), and
B. give Hitler Youth children a few hours of training on a glider, and throw them at the enemy bombers.
Each of those ideas failed spectacularly on its own. The cheap plywood often came unglued in mid air, control surfaces could break if you didn't know how far you can push them (e.g., on the He 162), etc. And that's if you were lucky and it was put together decently, which most often wasn't the case. The combination even more so, as some guy who's only been trained on a glider would definitely not know how far he can push the rudder.
To add to the problem, since the USAF and RAF had switched to bombing the refineries and railways, the Luftwaffe was pretty much running on fumes, and the industry was running short on resources.
Yet someone thought it's a great idea to throw a full fuel tank and a perfectly good jet engine into the great thrash can in the sky, by putting them in a poorly made plane, piloted by an unqualified pilot. Not a whole lot came back, is all I'm saying. While hundreds examples were captured after the war, it was more like in the factories.
My (first) nomination would be the WW2 Volksjäger program. By the end of the second world war, Germany had this idea to
A. produce the cheapest jet aircraft, out of the cheapest possible stuff, with the most unskilled labour (often slaves), and
B. give Hitler Youth children a few hours of training on a glider, and throw them at the enemy bombers.
Each of those ideas failed spectacularly on its own. The cheap plywood often came unglued in mid air, control surfaces could break if you didn't know how far you can push them (e.g., on the He 162), etc. And that's if you were lucky and it was put together decently, which most often wasn't the case. The combination even more so, as some guy who's only been trained on a glider would definitely not know how far he can push the rudder.
To add to the problem, since the USAF and RAF had switched to bombing the refineries and railways, the Luftwaffe was pretty much running on fumes, and the industry was running short on resources.
Yet someone thought it's a great idea to throw a full fuel tank and a perfectly good jet engine into the great thrash can in the sky, by putting them in a poorly made plane, piloted by an unqualified pilot. Not a whole lot came back, is all I'm saying. While hundreds examples were captured after the war, it was more like in the factories.
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