No the V1s & V2s were actually pretty bad, all V projects where unless if they were going to get the technology be able to pinpoint a location for the rocket to hit, which they didn’t which is why so many hit urban populous because they had a high chance in hitting something & killing something because the target was so big.
Even Hitler thought the V projects were rather bad, he was least impressed by the V2 calling it an artillery shell which could just go farther, he truly didn’t see the possibilities of the rocket, though the V weapon projects where funded still.
The V3 was also a weapon created, but very much a failed weapon, it basically was a very long gun (or pipe) inside or on the outside of a hill, which had timed charges going along the side which would each speed the projectile up faster & faster as it moved at pace down the tube, infact I saw a TV programme on it once & they did a small version of it & it almost reached the speed of sound, & that was only a small one.
But then again, as with all V weapons it had it’s faults, it could barely be aimed as it was mounted in a fixed position & it had ‘very bad accuracy’ (yet some examples of targets the gun hit includes London, but only 2-5 shells are thought to have hit causing only a couple of deaths) & so much funding went into it that some believe it was the reason why the Eastern Front collapsed.
Infact the Allies knew nothing about it, yet they destroyed the weapon as they saw lots of activity around a hill in France, the British & American bomber forces pummelled the hill with explosives but made a mere dent in it.
So the British & Americans both went there ways & designed an explosive to destroy the hill & it’s unknown contents.
The Americans had recently begun testing early remote control & their idea was to pack a bomber full of explosives, fly it near the target & then when it range, jump out of the flying bomb & a plane behind the explosive in flight (trying to vary my wording) would steer it to it’s target.
Unfortunately the day they went to use their flying bomb, as it was going over British Countryside, a fault on board the plane with the explosives caused it explode & kill it’s crew, not to mention this crew contained JFK’s brother, who insisted he wanted to do this last operation despite his family & much of the people he knew & around him, telling him he had done enough.
The British idea however was used a couple of times throughout the war to destroy heavily fortified & strategic points, this idea was created by none of than the inventor of the bouncing bomb which made the ‘Dam Busters’ used; Barnes Wallis. The Bomb which they used in this instance though was called the Tall Boy bomb, it was a very big (& tall) bomb which bombers which carried it had to be modified (usually their entire bomb doors were ripped off) to carry the bomb.
The Tallboy was also called the Earthquake Bomb, as that is technically what it made, it had a thick metal point at the top & when it hit the ground it would bury itself underground & then explode, sending seismic waves through the ground making a miniature earthquake in a 500m diameter.
This worked when they hit the site of the V3, not to mention the Tallboy bomb was used in a variety of other operations from destroying a railroad bridge to a e-boat & U-boat dock.
Hop you find this interesting, THE ALLIES ARE THE BEST ACTUALLY.
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