In article , Eugene
Griessel writes
Cub Driver wrote in message news:4j8uuv4648rrmgp
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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.

Astonishingly low materials cost - and I guess that the workers were not
paid union rates...

When the first couple of V1s fell on Britain on the 16th of July, the
immediate reaction of the authorities was:

1. These items must be costly to built - the Germans really have taken
a wrong turning here.

2. We don't know how they are guided - but in case they happen to home
in on radio signals, perhaps we'd better stop the BBC from transmitting
when we detect some incoming...

Cheers,

Dave

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Dave Eadsforth