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Your statement that the Hs294, Fi-103 and A-4 were the basis of all guided missile and ICBM delivery systems is quite wrong and it is this kind of sweeping mis-statement that I\\\'m trying to correct. FYI the U.S. had equivalent anti-ship guided missiles from 1944 onwards (so did the Japanese by the way) and was actually somewhat in advance of the German techniques that relied on easily-jammed links. Also, the U.S. mass-produced a cruise missile before the Second World War. I suggest you look up the Kettering Bug. The Russians also had a very V-1-like missile, the Kh-10 that looked like but was developed independently of the Fi-103. As to the A-4, there were U.S. teams working on similar programs; in fact there were seven U.S. rocket design teams. The American scientist Goddard and the Russian Korolev were just as advanced in the state of the art as their German opposite numbers. The fairest comment is that missile technologies were developed independently in several places at once. As to ICBMs, its obvious from their napkinwaffe that the Germans didn\\\'t have a clue as to what was involved in their construction. Their \\\'proposals\\\' were utterly unworkable. There were whole clutches of problems that they simply didn\\\'t know existed (as there were with swept wings by the way).

The point about the Hs-294 was that the claim that modern anti-ship missiles didn\\\'t have the capability listed is factually inaccurate. The Russians had a very similar missile called the RAT-52 and the U.S. Navy one called Petrel. The attack profile in question proved to be useless; it was much more effective simply to fly the missile into the target. Dropping it in the water and running it as a torpedo drastcially reduced hit probabilities and the technique was abandoned.