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But the Germans are never going to make any big dent in American industry - it is too big and the Luftwaffe's resources insufficient.
Even if they do redesign the Fritz X into a conventional bomb, it's still just maybe a 1000kg bomb.
One 1000kg bomb just isn't going to do that much harm.
I will go back to the V-1 flying bomb - which had 850kg of explosives.
That isn't much, but it is 2.5 times that of the Fritz-X.
Launching them from the air at a distance is the best way for the carrier aircraft to survive attacking the US. But their accuracy is going to suck.
But could their guidance system be altered to improve the accuracy? Taking advantage of technologies such as Naxos, which homed in on H2S radar signals on RAF bombers.
Not sure if the US had many radar stations on the East Coast, but maybe it could be tuned to radio signals?
And what, take out radio towers ?
Without very detailed reconnaissance no one would know where a radio tower is in relation to a vital target. The Luftwaffe did zero recon of the USA.
Anyway the V1 had no terminal guidance, it had a crude form of inertial guidance that kept it on the course it was launched at, + or - many miles, sometimes accurate enough to hit London, the biggest city in the world at the time, I think.
When we got radar, one of the firsy uses was for ships. Even if we didn;t HAVE many fround-nbased radars, I'm pretty sure they'd get a radar-equipped ship or 10 to sit on the East Coast after the first bomb fell.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure there would be a STRONG reaction from the leaders as well as people, particularly on the East Coast itself.