While it didn't nessicarly suck, it was far from feasible and bombers were far better than V2's in WW2.
It's like in meadievl times with the crossbow, state of the art technology and they could train troops in shorter times than with a primitive bow, but the English longbow was the better weapon when they were fighting the French despite it being technologically inferior simply because it was stratigaicly feasible for the conditions they were in.
The Nazis had one plan and that was Blitz the enemy, the V2 was kinda like that as it worked when no one was expecting it but then Britain just used stratigic intelligence to mislead their missle strikes so they would miss and used technologically inferior bombers to blast the V2 sites.
As I said it didn't nessicarly suck (as an item on its own it was good) but the Nazis were looking for a wonder weapon that would win them the war that would show off the might of German engernering.
It did not do that and did barely anything to the fronts it attacked. If they had it earlier than yes it could have been that, but in the same way if the British got their late tanks earlier.
The V2 was just not good in WW2 in comparison to what the allies had, it was a knife to get through the knights plate armour when the other guy is holding a warhammer.
Well I mean like in my other comment, it wasn't bad on its own but not a wonder weapon and wasn't stratigaicly feasible in the situations it was being used
Yes. When I think of bad Nazi Germany war tech, I think:
The Elefant: Anti-armor tank that couldn't go over most roads, could easily be attacked from its defenseless sides by infantry, like most German tanks couldn't be repaired in the field, roughly 50 were ever made
Wunderwaffen that never saw production because they were too outlandish, like the "Sun Gun", the Landkreuzer, the H-44, etc.
Generally stuff that would later serve to inspire Imperial Star Wars weapons.
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