I´m sorry, but what does that have to do with my response? Not trolling or anything, I would genuinely like to know.
I just wanted to point out that if you want to create new weapons, you sometimes have to try stuff out. After the war we know that most (if not all) of the superweapons were a complete waste of time and resources, but could German leaders at that time have known that? From what they knew the V-weapons could have been a really impactfull weapon. Just saying that a lot of this discussion is based on hindsight, in my opinion.
Well it was just in response to devolving more, I was assuming you meant in the HOI timeframe to 1948. I mean sure if it went into the 50's there might have been some kind of accurate enough electronic guidance system of some kind maybe. Of course in hindsight we know that the motivations of Werner Von Braun and the German leaders were quite different. They were using each other, Von Braun wanted to make rockets that eventually went into space, which he did, in the USA, and the military wanted weapons, both had a parallel development at that point.
What I am getting to on that is that Von Braun was going to lie about what he could do in order to get funding, like how the America Bomber wasn't ever meant to be a bomber by the engineers, they just wanted an expensive experiment. So yes the German leaders would not have known that the V-Weapons were pointless because of bad information given to them, with conventional explosives at least and Germany never gave a full effort on nuclear weapons to begin with.
If Von Braun had given the truth he would have pointed out that it would take a very long time to get a guidance system good enough for V weapons to be viable, realistically it wasn't until the late 1970's that was even feasible. Funny story on that too, after the first successful V-2 launch there was a celebration party where Von Braun said that it was a success but they landed on the wrong planet, blurting out his real intentions of the entire project, and was arrested by the Gestapo for treason or something like that, eventually let go only after much effort by his superiors.
I would say in the end that V weapons needed the most hindsight to see their futility within the near future, thinks like the P-1000 and the like was viewed as stupid by everyone that new anything about tank warfare. The super heavy guns didn't take much hindsight either since they were overall inferior to a far cheaper bomber, took two weeks to set up, and cost as much as an entire Panzer division. I mean there was only one time they did something a bomber couldn't do and that was taking out an ammo bunker at Sevastapol that was not only 30 meters under water but covered by 10 meters of concrete. Other than that it really didn't do anything that a bomber with a large armor piercing bomb could have done for a small fraction of the price.
