Big WW2 German guns shoot down and destroy everything
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Destroyer500
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I understand the limitations of the system but what im proposing is mostly an extension of the Leitstrahl.It will incorporate more antennas and radio systems along the path we want the shells to be fired at.Since it only had a few antennas,i think 3-4,trucks and similar vehicles could carry them and deploy wherever thats needed while also carrying the radio equipment.
Do we actually need a maneuverable, terminally guided re-entry vehicle ? We only need some very basic guidance.There were though radar homing glide bombs made by the US so maybe something of that kind can be fitted on the shell.Go to the end of the page Dawn of the Smart Bomb and youll see it
True.They need somebody finding targets for them - and those somebody would be quickly schoot down.
I reiterate that it cannot be done. You can have all the antennas in the world all the way to the target, the rocket cannot maneuver without powered thrust.
I also reiterate that U.S. technology was vastly more advanced than German. If the U.S. could barely build a crude and limited system with all its resources in 1944, rest assured that it impossible for Germany to field a comparable system for many years beyond that.
Why exactly is that the case?
The V-1 has no guidance and is only accurate to within a very broad area; the Okha was a manned suicide craft with a human pilot providing terminal guidance all the way to impact. Ruthless, but highly effective.
ATP is referring to the manned V1 variant instead of the typical missile version.
V1 have manned version,which worked.So,it could be used.
Destroyer500
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So the necessary thing to allow the V2 to be more accurate in its descent requires it to keeps its engine active or something during descent ?
Maybe youre right but with a better R&D maybe the Germans could do it,especialy if they care to implement it on such a project.However what made US electronics that much more advanced ? Materials ? Scientists ? Better R&D ? The fact that they focused on a few projects ? I am unironically asking.
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Megadeath
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The Americans had the advantage of huge resources, an equally large man power pool, a war focused economy, and a good education base, without the disadvantages of getting bombed to shit, having their territory occupied, and a command economy run by a drug fuelled megalomaniac.
The only way that Germany matches what America could do late in the war, early enough in the war to matter, is if we imagine there's a time travel fairy whispering directly in Hitler's ear that he listens to without question.
That is correct. The V-2's guidance system maneuvered the rocket by a combination of rudders on the fins and guide vanes that vectored the engine thrust; the rudders alone were insufficient to control the rocket.
The manned version of the V-1 was the Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg, and it did not work. Literally every single test flight of the 103R resulted in a catastrophic, usually fatal, crash and the Germans made absolutely no progress in actually understanding or fixing this.
Literally the only time the thing was even claimed to not crash was in the memoirs of Hanna Reitsch, but there is no credible supporting documentation and Reitsch is known to have been an inveterate liar.
As far as I can tell the only times it crashed was when the canopy was jettisoned accidentally, and on landings.
Being a suicide weapon, I don't think Japan would care if it was unable to land. The Ohka was unable to land as well.
This is incorrect -- the trainer variant of the Okha, the K-1, was able to land and did not experience any issues with doing so because it was properly designed from the start as a manned aircraft. The Reichenberg, on the other hand, appears to have had fundamental issues with aerodynamic instability due to cramming a pilot into something designed *without*.
The K-1 was equipped with flaps for landing, which explains why it could land.
As far as I can tell, the V1 manned versions lacked this feature.
Wrong.They lost few,but eventually Hanna Reitsch landed in it.She was nazi,like almost all germans,but not liar.If she said that she done something,that it was done.
And,Japan would not care about problems - even if 50% fell to the sea before finding american fleet,with mass production it would be not problem.
Indeed.Japan could use it and bleed american fleet near Okinawa enough to prevent any invasion.
Which would not save them from A-bombs,of course.
49ersfootball
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@Destroyer500 Good Morning. I'm following this thread quite closely.
Destroyer500
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Good to hear ! However updates on the guns guidance system and the how and when of other matters will take some time to be completed and answered properly as im somewhat busy these days