10-22-2020, 02:45 PM | #21 |
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Re: V1 and V2 launch procedures?
They could of have had pay loads of a biological weapons say cholera or nerve gas and used it to attack London.
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10-22-2020, 03:06 PM | #22 | |
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Certainly a gas warhead would work. However, note that chemical weapons went almost completely unused in WWII despite all powers having access to both the chemicals and the means of delivering them. Remember that by the time V2s were flying, the Allies were delivering a lot more tonnage of bombs to cities than the Germans were. And they had plenty of gas on hand. Not nerve gas perhaps, but dropping a few hundred tons of mustard gas on Berlin would have been straightforward, horrific, and pretty likely as an immediate response to V-weapon gas attacks.
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10-22-2020, 04:29 PM | #23 |
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10-22-2020, 05:44 PM | #24 |
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That's a really inefficient way of using an already over-expensive and inefficient weapon.
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10-22-2020, 06:13 PM | #25 | |
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Just to try to add some value to the post: a bit of Googling told me that the CEP of a V2 was about a mile. |
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10-22-2020, 08:36 PM | #26 | |
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You would get very little dispersal that way and fire from leftover fuel vapors ,extremely hot components and impact sparksmight actually sterilize the impact site. If you wanted to disperse bio-chemical agents over London you could simply spray them from a conventional airplane at very high altitude. Using a V-weapon for this is just compulsive Mad Science!
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10-22-2020, 09:08 PM | #27 |
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I don't think high-altitude aerosols would be an effective way of delivering either chemical or biological weapons. They're likely to be scattered down to homeopathic concentrations and blown entirely off target besides.
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10-22-2020, 09:19 PM | #28 | |
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Dumping cholera bacteria in the reservoirs just makes sure the water gets chlorinated twice before it comes out municipal faucets. Needing to get chemical agents in concentrations like liquid rain means they'll reach no farther than high explosives. There were some schemes for scattering small incendiaries to start massive fires and they mostly didn't work either. There are reasons it's always that dull old BOOM-BOOM-BOOM.
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10-22-2020, 09:31 PM | #29 | |
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10-23-2020, 01:46 AM | #30 | |
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With them you drop masses of small incendiary bombs that being smaller and having fins, fall more slowly. By the time they hit the target area the roofs have gaps in them, though which these bombs can fall. This puts them inside the houses, in contact with their nice dry frames and floors and probably also in an attic full of old papers and dust and stuff, all mixed up by the blast that blew half the roof off. Woosh!
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