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To: ganeemead

In WWII, the low-tech V-1 flying bomb was very cost-effective. The much more technically impressive V-2 was not cost effective. But it did get Werner von Braun a job with NASA.


3 posted on 10/13/2022 8:26:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

And got von Braun immunity re his war crimes.


5 posted on 10/13/2022 8:28:51 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ClearCase_guy

> The much more technically impressive V-2 was not cost effective. <

Good point. The Germans valued quality over quantity. The Soviets did just the opposite. And we all know who won that little spat.


7 posted on 10/13/2022 8:31:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“In WWII, the low-tech V-1 flying bomb was very cost-effective. The much more technically impressive V-2 was not cost effective.”

And no matter how cost effective either of them was, neither was actually effective in achieving the goals that Hitler and the Germany military wanted and needed to achieve with them.


9 posted on 10/13/2022 8:34:31 AM PDT by Boogieman
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