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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.

I suppose it depends on your definition of skilled and fairly skilled.
Interesting much of the labor force was actually slave labor.

Sufficient to say that for the purpose of this discussion of asymmetric
warfare, a major power today should be able to gather and train a labor
forces to manufacture such a class of weapon which to combat these
weapons would require a much greater force by the US.


D.


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