[6SJ7]

They also had a “Space shuttle” type vehicle on the drawing boards, launched by rail/rocket for bombing North American targets from a barely sub orbital altitude........

The Sanger Silver Bird. Really revolutionary stuff for the 1940's.

[Red Badger]

Clever, those Germans...............

[TalonDJ]

The Sanger Silver Bird. Really revolutionary stuff for the 1940's.

Yes, and we have similarly ‘detailed’ designs for ships to fly to alpha centauri. It is just not that hard to sketch up something vaguely feasible but far from currently constructable. There were ideas for nuclear rockets in the 30s and 40s too but it was not until the 60 and 70 before nuclear rocket engines were able to be built (and then proved to be impractical). Yes it is impressive that they dreamed stuff up, but not THAT impressive.