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Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future
(www.economist.com)
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There was also the V-1 flying bomb.
My father grew up in London during the Blitz. I remember being told by my grandmother that if you heard an engine and looked up and saw a V-1, you just started saying to yourself, "keep going... keep going..." because if you heard the engine stop, you knew you were dead.
And then my father told me you wouldn't even know if the V-2 was coming because it flew faster than sound.
Pretty intereting to hear about the V-1 and V-2 from the civilian side. My great grandfather helped reverse engineer the damned things furing ww2 and was always annoyed that the germans used them as terror weapons. He thought they would have been of better use as specialized rocket artillery for armored collumns.
He also worked on the Stuka air break system, which apparently was a pain in his ass since the aircraft he was given was mildly defective which caused him much annoyance.
They told me about that when I was maybe 10 years old. I'm 46 and I still think about how scary that must have been...