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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Left:The [[UK]]/[[Ukraine]] 'Flamingo'; Right: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 and others.
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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.
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.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Ow2y7yXvEc4 Horrible Footage!! Russian kamikaze drone destroys American Avenger air defense system in Ukraine]</ref>
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.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Ow2y7yXvEc4 Horrible Footage!! Russian kamikaze drone destroys American Avenger air defense system in Ukraine]</ref>
[[Image:V2_rocket.jpg|right|thumb|200px|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.]]
[[Image:V2_rocket.jpg|right|thumb|200px|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.]]
[[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.]]
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Deus ex machina]]
*[[Deus ex machina]]