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A World War II map shows the two areas where the Germans were setting up their secret "V" weapons to bombard England (right, center). These are the areas in which the Royal Air Force and 8th Air Force heavy bombers concentrated their bombs in order to knock out the weapons -- part of the pre-invasion plan.
Mittelwerk GmbH also headed sites for V-2 rocket development and testing at Schlier (Project Zement) and Lehesten. [4] Beginning in May 1944, [ 2 ] Georg Rickhey was the Mittelwerk general manager, [ 5 ] Albin Sawatzki was the Mittelwerk technical director over both Arthur Rudolph 's Technical Division [ 5 ] (with deputy Karl Seidenstuecker ...
The A4 Rocket Part 1 (in German), DE: Bernd Leitenberger. The A4 Rocket Part 2 (in German), DE: Bernd Leitenberger. "Part Two", V2 (article), Aerospace museum, October 2004, archived from the original on 26 May 2005. Space (lecture), University of Oregon, archived from the original on 10 April 2005.
The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...
The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, [a] HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office (Heereswaffenamt). [3]: 85 Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket.
Rocket number Date Burning time (s) Range (km) Pad Remarks 1942: V-1 18 March, [1]: 160 1942 0 Tower The first A-4 flight-test model was completed 25 February 1942, [2] but slipped out of its "corset" after being fully tanked at Test Stand VII, fell 2 meters, smashed three fins, and came to rest on the rim of the engine nozzle.
V-1 flying bomb V-2 missile V-3 cannon. V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German pronunciation: [fɐˈgɛltʊŋsˌvafṇ], German: "retaliatory weapons", "reprisal weapons"), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly strategic bombing and aerial bombing of cities.
Pages in category "German V-2 rocket facilities" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...