What if the Germans had used the V1+2 against Stalin factories??

CalBear

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Well, the Ohka is Japan's V1. Plus it has a bigger explosive load (1200kg).

That wasn't the really clever part of the design. The Japanese made the whole thing air deployable meaning it was substantially harder to defend against than any land based system. Unfortunately for the IJN, they had to use Betty bombers as transport, meaning most of the Kamakazi rockets never made it to launch point.
 
Unfortunately for the IJN, they had to use Betty bombers as transport, meaning most of the Kamakazi rockets never made it to launch point.

Well, more like they had to make do with what they had. I think it would have seen more effective use if the Ohka was introduced in winter '44 and emplaced across a number of hidden launchpads throughout Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
 

NapoleonXIV

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WI the Germans had developed the staged rocket they were working on? That was said to be capable of reaching the US, so it could certainly have hit the Urals.

Problem again is targeting.

If they had developed it, and if they knew exactly where the factories were and if they could have targeted anywhere near that precision, then yeh, Magnitogorsk would have been screwed
 
WI the Germans had developed the staged rocket they were working on? That was said to be capable of reaching the US, so it could certainly have hit the Urals.

Problem again is targeting.

If they had developed it, and if they knew exactly where the factories were and if they could have targeted anywhere near that precision, then yeh, Magnitogorsk would have been screwed
MBRs are not cost-effective (a.k.a. useless) without nukes.
 
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