----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Forster" <jfor@onemain.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] More on V-1's
> Fighter aircraft were not the only effective weapons against the V-1. The
> combination of the proximity fuze and radar controlled guns (SCR-584)
stopped a
> lot of buzz bombs. Either alone would not have been anything like as
effective.
>
Quite correct. (And someone who knows the difference between a fuze and a
fuse!)
> Also, by carefully created disinformation, the Brits were able to "walk"
the
> targeting away from vital areas into the surrounding countryside. They
modified
> the media reports of impact locations, and the Germans "corrected" their
azimuth
> and range settings, based on the falsified impact locations.
>
Some of this data about V-1 disinformation is only now seeing the light of
day, double agents also had a lot to do with it too, a very effective
counter-measure.
The figures are surprising, some tens of thousands of V-1s were launched
together with many thousands of V-2s, I have 40,000 and 8,000 respectively
in mind. Then there's the V-3 of course. . . . . . . . . . .
R.
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