Astro Cross: Flashback 1942 (was naming alien ships)

[Valles]

I could see a politically-motivated Bad Hereditary Science dodge that insisted that obviously human psi-talents always originated with the Superior Aryan Race, and that any psi was therefore actually an Aryan... Even those whose bloodlines had suffered past... interference, which might unfortunately disguise their natural features.

That said, leaving aside the horrifying torture-cyborg aspect of it, there's a definite truthiness to the VV-2's mission description and capabilities. Designing a pure-rocket mech would be an obvious first step in taking the fight into orbit, and using its engines for ballistic suborbital hops into ground deployment in the enemy backfield is actually a really clever application of such a design's capabilities. Granted, it'd work better 'dropping in' on factories and military supply dumps than major population centers, but given the real V-2's lousy accuracy, it could easy just be that the VV-2s tend to end up walking the last few miles to reach their actual targets, with orders to make a mess along the way.

...Really, it's a hell of a lot more effective than the real one could ever have hoped to be.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."