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It'd be near impossible to manufacture something like DPICM in WW2 on the required scale at an economical price and useful reliability. It was a rather major accomplishment for the US to be able to do so in the 1960s, and took a while for anyone else to follow. Similar issues exist for scattered landmines, though air scattered weapons would be much easier to make. A weapon like Volcano dispensed from trucks and low flying army cooperation types of planes instead of helicopters is pretty much an ideal countermeasure to blitzkrieg.

[QUOTE="Sea Skimmer, post: 184750, member: 1836"] It'd be near impossible to manufacture something like DPICM in WW2 on the required scale at an economical price and useful reliability. It was a rather major accomplishment for the US to be able to do so in the 1960s, and took a while for anyone else to follow. Similar issues exist for scattered landmines, though air scattered weapons would be much easier to make. A weapon like Volcano dispensed from trucks and low flying army cooperation types of planes instead of helicopters is pretty much an ideal countermeasure to blitzkrieg. [/QUOTE]

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