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Twenty-five killed after Ukraine shells Donetsk, officials say (www.reuters.com)

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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And the me262 was a good interceptor(when it was working and not falling apart because it was made by slaves). You know, the thing you really want to have when bomber planes are bombing the shit out of you?

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

That gave me a sudden thought, so I went back and checked (I'm just using the wikipedia pages for the V2 and Me-262) - in total, there were 1430 262s built, but there were over 3000 V-2s.

They could have tripled their jet interceptor force, something the allies had no answer to (other than just winning the ground war - it wouldn't have turned the tide, but still), but instead they made a strategically insignificant number of Special Expensive Bombs and spent basically all of them on random civilians.