V-2 rockets.

[ColKLink]

V-2"s? need a new toolshedder.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by ColKLink
V-2"s? need a new toolshedder.

Your problem would be: you can't hit a toolshed with a V-2. You can't even hit a strat target with a V-2. It's so unprecise you can only hope to hit a certain sector, but not aim for anything inside it.

[Latrobe]

Klink you noob . I don't see why we need a new toolshedder when CT is just around the corner (i hope).

[ColKLink]

Maybe someone as sic as me, would enjoy lobbing, huge rockets in the air, with no idea where they are heading. Shoot they still use scuds, and folks get all excited about em.

[Denholm]

Perhaps the only reason you want them is to shoot them towards a base where you're upping a tempest waiting for it so you can shoot it down for mega perks.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Denholm
Perhaps the only reason you want them is to shoot them towards a base where you're upping a tempest waiting for it so you can shoot it down for mega perks.

Ehmmm I think even a Tempest would have quite a hard time trying to intercept a V2...

[Denholm]

One of my WWII books mentioned that Typhoon and Tempest's main role on the home front was to intercept and shoot down the buzz bombs. Sure it would be difficult, but if you get a good angle at one and manage to dive onto it you might just catch up to it and get a few rounds into the engine.

I also believe that one part of the book mentioned that pilots would bump the bombs which would destabilize it and cause it to crash. But once again, not so certain about that since the bombs were explosive and could cause the plane to blow up along with it.

[oboe]

Buzz bomb = V1, which could be intercepted as they were basically a very early version of the cruise missile.

V2 was more of a ballistic missile and interception by even jet powered aircraft was not possible.

[Hazard69]

V1 was a pulse-jet engine driven missile.
The V2 was a supersonic missile driven by a rocket engine. And the guidance system on scuds is decades ahead of what the V2 had.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Denholm
One of my WWII books mentioned that Typhoon and Tempest's main role on the home front was to intercept and shoot down the buzz bombs.

As others have already pointed out, a V2 rocket is no buzz bomb...

[Latrobe]

Originally posted by Lusche
As others have already pointed out, a V2 rocket is no buzz bomb...

Sure it is, it's just a very large buzz bomb

[Denholm]

And as this thread shows:
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216448

I still don't know the difference between the two.

[Motherland]

V1

Essentially a bomb with a jet engine strapped to the top. Not horribly fast.



V2

An actual ballistic missle. Penetrated the upper atmosphere before coming back down on Britain, IIRC.

[SD67]

BUT conceivably a V1 could be set up to hit large strats like cities.
It would be a huge risk, since they'd be perked generously, non refundable and probably only useful in numbers, but it would be cool to see building destroyed messages pop up 30minutes after you've sent them on their way.
The tricky part would be setting the courses on each missile.

Lets say,
   Select V1 perk cost say....10
   Enter your best guess at range and heading from your selected base. (Fuel consumption was staggering limiting range to about 150 miles)
   Make an educated guess as to the altitude you want the missile to cruise at between 2000 and 3000 feet, (you cannot go around mountains)
   Select launch
   Repeat until perks run out.
   Wait.

It's a big chance to take spending perks on a weapon system that is only going to land badly, n00bs launching continuous waves of V1's could be unbalancing but in the hands of someone with the knack of setting heading and range they would be deadly .

[Rich46yo]

The V1 was the first cruise missile the world had ever seen. After the war the USA used the technology to build such systems as Snark, Regulus, Matador, and Hound Dog. The Brits actually tested their own cruise missile back in the '20s tho at the time they simply called them pilot-less aircraft.

                        The Japanese has a piloted anti-ship cruise missile that was actually a very dangerous weapon. I forget the name of it but luckily for us very few were built cause the Japanese seemed to have had no shortage of people willing to die for their emperor.

                      Yes, its true that British fighter pilots would tip the wings of the V1s causing them to spin out of control and crash. It was actually a very effective tactic. Many of the Scuds operated by 3'rd world countries today are very little different then the V2. And about as accurate.

                   It would be kinda cool to have Luftwaffe "Mistel" aircraft in AH.