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Saturating British defense
Gary — (archived)

If the Nazis were launching 10 times as many V-1s at the British as they actually did then it seems reasonable the British defensive strategy would have saturated. Also with ten times the number of V-1s flying into London, the Nazis would not have needed precision targeting. I was aware of the heroic trick used by British fighter pilots to tip the wing of a V-1 and gimbal lock its autopilot. However, how hard would it have been to program the V-1 to fly S-turns or some simple evasive trajectory (roll modulation)? V-1s were very cheap to make. Their biggest limitation was their launch ramp which was easy to locate and bomb from the air. However the Nazis could have air launched the V-1s if destruction of launch ramps became a serious issue. In an alternate history, the Germans could have used cruise missile technology almost as effectively as they used submarine technology in the early phases of World War 2.

Gary

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