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Offline Fongman

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« on: April 02, 2005, 10:16:27 PM »
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Offline GScholz

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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2005, 05:06:25 AM »
Add A-bomb and it could have gotten really scary.
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2005, 02:52:40 PM »
Stupidest thing Ive ever seen.
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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2005, 03:19:19 PM »
I'm confused -- that beast was a pain to prelaunch, and the fuel wasnt exactly the most stable stuff around. How did they load fuel, go through the prelaunch check, and keep everything OK while the missile was towed?

Are the photos operational, or were they done 20ft away from some off camera dock?
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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2005, 04:21:18 PM »
I bet that thing would have been too inaccurate even for a nuke.
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2005, 04:27:04 PM »
Yep...this whole idea seems kind of pointless because there isn't really any means to guide the rocket.  Seems like this would be more dangerous to the crew of the U-boat than the enemy.

But then again...you could modify the fuse and maneuver the U-boat underneath an enemy ship, then launch the rocket right into the hull of the ship, but that would most likely take out the U-boat too.

So yeah, not really any practical use for it.
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2005, 04:49:55 PM »
Nah not really any use for it as far as the game goes. But i think its really amazing how many things you see the Germens pioneerd that are in similar use today. Such as Subs launching missiles and the B-2 etc , Jets... I wonder what the germans would have come up with if they had one ww2.
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2005, 05:31:28 PM »
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Yep...this whole idea seems kind of pointless because there isn't really any means to guide the rocket.  Seems like this would be more dangerous to the crew of the U-boat than the enemy.

But then again...you could modify the fuse and maneuver the U-boat underneath an enemy ship, then launch the rocket right into the hull of the ship, but that would most likely take out the U-boat too.

So yeah, not really any practical use for it.


Here you are again! Please stop spouting bullchit everywhere you post!

The A4 (V2) had an inertial navigation system. This missile had a top speed of mach 5, flew in space, re-entered the atmosphere, and regularly hit London all the way from Germany.

Your ship attack hypothesis is ridiculous. I hope it was a joke.
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2005, 05:37:03 PM »
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Add A-bomb and it could have gotten really scary.


Yeah, but as they didn`t have one, it was indeed completely stupid idea (and showed the future of ICBM subs coming at the same time).

Without a nuke, risking an U-boat with 50-60 man, sending it all accross the atlantic at the cost of hundreds of tons of diesel, just to lauch a single rocket that was questionable to hit even a city as big as NYC from the sea launch, and even if it`s hits the damage is negligable... not to speak that the whole mission fails if the sea is unkind, and the rocket is lost via transfer or simply impossible to be set up for lauch in the heavy seas...

But, as said, long live the pioneers.
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2005, 05:49:18 PM »
hey , i have a idea, have the US design a super bomber and call it a B29 and then design a super bomb that would destroy a whole city.....nah,silly idea, americans too stupid to do anything like  that.
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2005, 05:53:55 PM »
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hey , i have a idea, have the US design a super bomber and call it a B29 and then design a super bomb that would destroy a whole city.....nah,silly idea, americans too stupid to do anything like  that.


Well ... how many of the A-bomb's designers were actually American by birth? How many were German?
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2005, 06:03:03 PM »
How many were Hungarian? :D :aok

I heard it was Teller Ede the only smart enough of all of them to license what he made. Yep, he was paid huge license fees by all the warmongering superpowers busy building A-bombs! Smart guy.
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2005, 06:35:13 PM »
U forgot most americans where formerly europeans :)

Also what country gave the opportunity and technology to make the bomb.

Its the Germans fault to terrorize and haunt the jewish scientists like Einstein out of the country either.
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« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2005, 08:08:57 PM »
And if the germans had enough sense to focus on the practical, achievable producable tech --- they might have done MUCH better. As it was, they fragmented their production and research into so many channels that war changing techs (liek the jet, and the cheap, mass producable V1) werent available in time or in quantity to have an impact.

For the price of one -- the V2 project -- they could have had thousands of V1s launched months earlier from nearer bases. And each V1 had the same or slightly more payload than the intermediate range ballistic V2.

And how did that looney sea launch from a thermos bottle idea get past the doodle on a napkin stage?

USA did outproduce, but one reason was their hard headed emphasis on making it work....
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« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2005, 11:06:11 PM »
So are you saying because of its INS this particular sea launch system was feasible? Or are you just defending the Nazis because they were geniuses but still lacked the ability to win the war regardless of their advanced technology.

Since you also bring up the A Bomb when exactly did Germany use their advanced atomic technology? If they had a working model why is it that they never used it?
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