• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Pretty intereting to hear about the V-1 and V-2 from the civilian side. My great grandfather helped reverse engineer the damned things furing ww2 and was always annoyed that the germans used them as terror weapons. He thought they would have been of better use as specialized rocket artillery for armored collumns.

    He also worked on the Stuka air break system, which apparently was a pain in his ass since the aircraft he was given was mildly defective which caused him much annoyance.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      They told me about that when I was maybe 10 years old. I’m 46 and I still think about how scary that must have been…