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Originally Posted by RT
I have a question too: why did the Germans introduce the R4M so late?
I read that the german were more confident on cannons, more accurate cost lower...internal weapon..
The rocket seems to more some kind of saturation weapon, not for a scarce-materail country like germany
remi
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But they invested a lot of effort in other weapons to break up formations, rather than hit individual aircraft. It seems to me that the R4M would have served that purpose very well if the bombers could see it coming (e.g. smoke trails). Other advantages were small aerodynamic penalty from carrying them (at least I guess so) compared to a big gun or the WGr. 21 and that they were "fire-and-forget" weapons unlike, say, the X-4.