What if, for some reason, Germany never began work on the V1 missile and focused entirely on the V2 rocket?
They save a marginal amount of money and resources. Then they blow it all on the wasteful V-2.What if, for some reason, Germany never began work on the V1 missile and focused entirely on the V2 rocket?
None that I know of.How many lessons-learned during the V1 program were applicable to V2?
The V-2 cost 6x as much for something like half the destruction in terms of the entire program. Plus because the V-2 couldn't be intercepted the Brits didn't bother to defend against it, while the V-1 forced the Allies to put enormous resources into FLAK belts and fighter defenses, plus spending 40% of their bombing missions against the launch sites. So for a fraction of the cost of the V-2 program they did about twice the damage in Britain, plus forced them to spend enormous resources that the V-2 did notI would argue the V1 is more wasteful than the V2. The V1 could be intercepted, while the V2 could not.