Bernardz wrote:

This class of weapon system is quite easy to build. A decent machine
shop can build them. For example a V1 rocket in WW2 could be constructed
from very simple material, relatively unskilled labor and took about 500
man hours to complete.

Well, not quite. It was *assembled* by relatively unskilled labor.
Many components (warhead, guidance) required skilled labor, and much
of the machining required fairly skilled labor, but connecting the
parts built by skilled labor could be done by relatively unskilled
labor.

D.
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