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[[File:Landkreuzer.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Wooden mock-up of proposed 350 ton tank that never made it into production.]] | [[File:Landkreuzer.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Wooden mock-up of proposed 350 ton tank that never made it into production.]] | ||
[[File:V1 flying bomb on ramp.jpg|center|250px|thumb|The V-1 "buzz bomb" with launcher arrived too late with certain vulnerabilities to make a difference. It's design decades later was the prototype for American Predator drone.]] | [[File:V1 flying bomb on ramp.jpg|center|250px|thumb|The V-1 "buzz bomb" with launcher arrived too late with certain vulnerabilities to make a difference. It's design decades later was the prototype for American Predator drone.]] | ||
| − | [[File:Photo_2025-08-18_10-08-33.jpg|center|250px|thumb|[[Ukrainian Flamingo]] | + | [[File:Photo_2025-08-18_10-08-33.jpg|center|250px|thumb|[[Ukrainian]] Flamingo]] |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Deus ex machina]] | *[[Deus ex machina]] | ||
Revision as of 16:13, August 18, 2025
Wunderwaffen or Wonder weapons (singular: wunderwaffe) is a term originally coined by Joseph Goebbels to describe new high tech weapons introduced in a losing war that are supposed to be game changers and turn the tide of a hopeless cause. Such examples are the V-1 and V-2 rockets, the jet-propelled aircraft engine, the Javelin missile, the Switchblade drone, the Brimstone missile, the M777 Howitzer, and the HIMAR multiple rocket launcher.
The M777 Howitezer, which costs about $4 million per unit, were easily destroyed by Lancet 3 loitering drones at cost of under $50,000 per unit.[1]
A V-2 rocket at the Peenemünde museum. It was built with slave labor. It's designer, Wernher von Braun, later designed the Saturn V rocket that landed a man on the moon for America.
Ukrainian Flamingo