The major reason for this is that they were a case of too
little, too late. By the time that these weapons came online, the Allies had already
invaded Europe. It was too late for the new weapons to do much good and they were not
available in sufficient numbers to be decisive in any
case.
Although the Me 262 jet fighter was introduced into
combat just before the D-Day landings, it was only as a test concept. It was some
months before significant numbers of these planes were available. Even when they did
become available in larger numbers, they could not make a huge dent in the Allied
forces. An example of this is a March, 1945 air raid in which Me 262s shot down 12
bombers out of over 1000 that were on the raid. Clearly, this was not going to make
enough of a difference, especially since the Allied ground troops were on their way into
Germany. If there had been thousands of these planes, it might have made a difference,
but there were not and it did not.
Overall, then, the new
German technologies were simply not ready in time to be produced in enough numbers to be
decisive in the war.
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