Though the first version of everything is going to be pretty shit

Took like 400 years for guns to be anything other than cheaper, shittier bows

Yup

I figure that the rockets were more shit to scare the shit out of horses

The swords probably made a spooky woosh noise too

Yeah they screamed like fireworks do

But military fireworks

Also I figure the real reason why black people never invented much other than the very earliest techs like spears is mainly because of mosquitos and tstse flies

Recalling the video I posted earlier, it's interesting how the Germans had to mix water in so the rocket fuel didn't melt the engines on the V2.

I feel like that could have also ended in disaster

what with bubbles

Course rockets are fucky things

@DanielKO Russians you plywood for jet wings

Like the first(and only) rocket plane the germans fielded

At least soviets

plywood for planes works if you're cheap and don't give a shit about the people flying them

Brits did it too when they needed air superiority in London

No we are talking jets after ww2

ahh

yeah that's kind of dumb

Plywood is a good meterial

It worked

Funfact:The Soviet copy of the B-52 bomber has two erroneous holes on the right wing.

They were just as good

They thought the bulletholes on the crashed plane's wing were intentional

@Alexmikli Early trains, cars, airplanes and tanks were pretty far from shitty

So doesn't really aply for everything

Another funny thing Russians copied American CPUs. We know this because a developer left their intials as Easter eggs in silicone die and the Russians left it in their CPUs

Russians are trash

Basically

Why bother reverse engineering when you can just copy it whole?

Russia doesn't invent anything

Really

Communists fucked them hard

You're not wrong, yeah

well actually didn't the first couple of trains have boiler explosions on the regular?

And there were a lot of pre-Wright brother's planes that crashed constantly

I guess it really depends on what you consider the first plane and first car, too

"Pre Wright" airplanes are more like prototypes

In the dirst world war airplanes were already in vast use

Well a lot of those early cannons and rockets were essentially prototypes too