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Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by Waterluvian on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:24AM (#17255128)
I was thinking more about how rocketry leads to jet planes. But also, my understanding was that bombs were awfully inaccurate. Not that pre-gps long range missiles are any better. My understanding was that the ramjet rockets were pretty terrifying too and did hit cities often.
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Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by WalterBright on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:27PM (#17260894)
> did hit cities often

Randomly hitting a city has a very small chance of hitting anything with military value.

> terrifying

Sure, but it turns out that terrifying citizens tends to harden their resolve to fight on, rather than surrendering. On both sides.

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Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by tntn on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:27PM (#17257350)
> Not that pre-gps long range missiles are any better.

They were much, much better.

EDIT: It appears the V2 in testing had a 4.5km CEP, while he minuteman III has a 200 m CEP.

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Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by WalterBright on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:24PM (#17260873)
> rocketry leads to jet planes

They were developed independently of each other.

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