在1942年後,感受到戰況膠著的納粹德國,開始宣傳這些強大的武器或可扭轉戰局之說法,試圖穩定民心。[2]事實上研製這些先進武器,一般需要長時間的設計、測試,德軍想在戰爭結束前就將其投入戰場的設想就顯得不太現實,一些匆忙投入戰場的先進武器(如豹式戰車與XXI級潛艇)也因生產前的測試不足或建造過程規劃不當,使其表現令德國軍方與領導層皆感到失望。[3]歷史學家麥克·J·紐菲爾德(英语:Michael J. Neufeld)對此指出,「所有無論未投入或已投入戰場的武器,其最終結果皆乃:帝國浪費了大量資金與技術(並為此殺害了許多強迫性勞工、奴工),藉以開發、生產出幾乎無戰術、戰略優勢的奇特武器」。[4]儘管如此,仍有少數武器被證實成效甚豐,並對戰後的設計生產產生巨大影響。
^Willy Ley, "V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship" Astounding Science Fiction, May 1945, repr. Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space, (ed. J. Francis McComas, Raymond J. Healy, [1946], 1957), p. 359.
^Willy Ley, "V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship" Astounding Science Fiction, May 1945, repr. Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space,(ed . J. Francis McComas, Raymond J. Healy, [1946], 1957), p. 359.
^Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, pp. 235–237 and 149
^Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, pp. 228–235
^Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 265
^Dénes Bernád, Charles K. Kliment, Helion and Company, Magyar Warriors: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945, Volume 1, p. 371