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How do you mean? They had effective bombing fleets and even their V2s, which had their problems, but still offered unmanned, long-range delivery.
by duaneb 11y ago
How do you mean? They had effective bombing fleets and even their V2s, which had their problems, but still offered unmanned, long-range delivery.
- bpodgursky 11y agoI'm not an expert, but nuclear bombs are heavy. I'm seeing the warhead capacity of a V2 rocket as 2,200lbs. Little Boy was 9,700lbs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
- CapitalistCartr 11y agoThey were heavy then. They aren't now. After the war a decade of research cut the weight by two orders of magnitude.
- expertentipp 11y agoThere was just a little bit of space in the tip for a warhead. Sometimes the tip was filled only with concrete from a shortage of explosives. Not without a reason the scientists in Peenemünde were calling V2 a "flying laboratory". Its actual military effectiveness as a missile was quite poor. For a scale: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Aggregat4-Schnitt-engl.jpg/800px-Aggregat4-Schnitt-engl.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Ag...
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoThey had no effective long range bombers that could carry such a bomb, nor air superiority in the latter half of the war (in which it'd be used).