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Originally Posted by CYDdharta
If you looked at the link, how could you have missed the tables that state in big red letters and numbers that in 1945 alone, the Japanese had produced 17 destroyers, 30 subs, an unknown number of destroyer escorts, 599,563 tons of merchant ships, and 8,263 aircraft? Those were just the number produced that year and don’t include in number remaining in reserve, and further production ended in August with their unconditional surrender. Of course they were very weak, but that’s a far cry from capitulating. |
considering the massive amounts of weaponry on the other side, those figures are minuscule.
For example, Japan produced no air craft carriers in 45. Military historians claim that the air craft carrier was the most key naval vessel in the war.
regardless of their ability to squeeze a few more weapons units, they were still in no way able to project those weapons units off of their shoreline.
production does not equate to the ability to wage offensive warfare. what oil was going to fuel those weapons?