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Old 03-29-10, 08:09 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Paul Riley View Post
I wonder if they could have ever converted a V2 to be fired from a U-Boat? That really would have been hard to counter,they would simply park the U-Boat literally in the Thames somewhere and *boom!*,bob's your aunty,they would have never had time to react to such a sudden attack
Looking at the images the system looked very rudimentary and would have created awful drag I reckon.Ideally it needs to be installed inside the hull itself?,like modern Trident subs.
Interesting link jim,cheers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2#Unfulfilled_plans
Thames it waaaaaaay too close.
More like Iceland's coastal waters (not that they would go there, just a range estimate)
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