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'''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. | '''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. | ||
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Left:The UK/Ukraine 'Flamingo'; Right:The German 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 and others. | ||
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 Howitzer, 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.
