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To: Moonman62

Not so much. The entire effect of the entire v2 rocket program was roughly equal to one 1000 bomber raid of the 8th Air Force. We could do weekly what the nazi rocketeers did the entire war.
The V2 is one of the few weapons that killed more people building it than in wartime use.


49 posted on 03/08/2014 10:31:54 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino
Not so much. The entire effect of the entire v2 rocket program was roughly equal to one 1000 bomber raid of the 8th Air Force. We could do weekly what the nazi rocketeers did the entire war.

The V-1 and V-2 "reprisal weapons" cost a total of about $3 billion to build and were thus more costly than the Manhattan Project ($1.8 billion). 6,048 V-2s were built, at a cost of approx. RM 100,000 each, and 3,225 were launched. Most of the launched rockets carried a warhead consisting of 738 kg of Amatol.

For comparison: In a single 24-hour period during Operation Hurricane, the RAF dropped over 10,000 metric tons of bombs on Braunschweig and Duisburg, roughly equivalent to the amount of explosives that could be delivered by 10,000 V-2 rockets.

- paraphrased from Wikipedia

Regards,

56 posted on 03/08/2014 11:52:15 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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