Pat Flannery wrote:

Scott Lowther wrote:

P.S. Sadly, Mark Wade is continuing the mythology that the A-9/A-10 ICBM
was to be manned. Bah!



It would be interesting to know how they intended to get it within a
hundred miles of either New York City or Washington D.C. with their
then-current guidance technology,

Sheer luck, and hard work. That was acknowledged as one of the problems
with the concept. And the fact is, Hitler (oddly) had a serious distaste
for Kamikaze weapons, right up to the end of the war, when he finally
okayed manned Fi-103 (V-1 buzzbombs). The notion that he would have
given the okay for a manned V-2 weapons system anytime prior to late 44
is laughable.

The A-9/A-10 would have simply been fired many times in hope of nailing
something interesting in Manhattan. They might have gotten away with it
had they kept France and control of the eastern Atlantic, as the launch
sites were in France and the splashdown sites for the recoverable and
reusable (!) A-10 stages was a few hundred miles offshore.

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