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Old December 29th 03, 06:01 AM
Eugene Griessel
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Cub Driver wrote in message . ..

The V-1 cost a hundred quid? You could get five V-1s for the price of
a Piper Cub? That would be the all-time bargain in terror weapons.


A British commission (RAE) just after WW2 concluded that the cost of a
V1, fuelled and armed (including the 200 pounds of Hydrogen Peroxide
needed for the launch) came to about 115 pounds. But that figure also
included a percentage of R&D and the cost of building Peenemunde.
They concluded that the raw cost of materials and manufacture was
around 87 pounds sterling. The average price the German government was
billed by the Volkswagen Fallersleben plant came to around 125 quid.