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RW: [This is about as militarily significant as the V1 and V2 rocket attacks on the UK.]

Very different. The German attacks were militarily significant in that they were good for diverting British resources towards air defense. Unfortunately for the Germans, they were otherwise ineffectual because they seldom hit industrial or military targets, due to the rudimentary nature of their targeting systems. Whereas the Ukrainian drones and missiles are precisely targeted, due to technology available now but not during WW2. And they serve the secondary function of diverting Russian resources towards air defense - cash that would otherwise be used towards supplying, arming or training their invasion force in Ukraine.

War is a combo of keeping morale high and setting vast sums of money on fire. Striking at military installations, ammo dumps and military aircraft in Russia keeps Ukrainian morale going, retards the Russian war effort and sets billions of rubles’ worth of Russian gear on fire. A real trifecta.

The V2 program was a failure. The rockets were cool, but without guidance or a nuke, they had no significance. It cost the equivalent of the Manhattan Project, and it’s effect of explosives delivered equaled a grand total of 3 of the thousand plane raids that Bomber Command and the 8th Air Force delivered several times a week by late in the war.

And it has the distinction of killing more of it’s own workers than victims.

The German mentality screwed them again. Tinkering with gadgets and whizzy things that would really matter 10-15 years after the war and ignoring important things right in front of them.

Glad they did it their own Teutonic way.