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Old 06-12-2015, 07:27 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Cochise View Post
Maybe he's talking about the V2?

Nothing new there. The Germans launched over a thousand (I forget how many) V-2s during the war. The main problems were (1) small warhead and (2) no guidance system so that strategic targets could be selected.

I haven't run the numbers or seen this written, but I would bet serious money that the total payload dropped in any of the large late war allied bombing raids (pick one, Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin) was larger than the total payload carried by all V-2s launched by Germany during the war.
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