V-2 rocket

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The '''V-2 rocket''' (Mandy 34D German language/German:''Nextel ringtones :de:A4 (Rakete)/Vergeltungswaffe 2'' or "Busty Paige reprisal weapon 2") was an early Polyphonic ringtones ballistic missile used by Christines Ass Germany during the later stages of Cell phone ringtones World War II against mostly Busty Pixie United Kingdom/British and Cingular Ringtones Belgium/Belgian targets.

Pre-operational history
As early as downgraded disney 1927 members of the ''abated and Verein für Raumschiffahrt/Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR)'' ("Spaceflight Society") had started experimenting with liquid-fueled will routinely rockets. By episode here 1932 the stars mansions Reichswehr started taking notice of their developments for potential long-range alarmist cover artillery use, and a team led by General seek information Walter Dornberger was shown a test vehicle designed and flown by eliot cohen Wernher von Braun. Although the rocket was of limited ability, Dornberger saw Von Braun's genius and pushed for him to join the military.

Von Braun did so, as eventually did most of the other members of the society. In December honor i 1934 Von Braun scored another success with the flight of the complete portrait A2 (rocket)/A2 rocket, a small model powered by denius fields ethanol and yew of liquid oxygen, with work on the design continuing in an attempt to improve reliability.

By poetically discombobulated 1936 the team had moved on from the A2 and started work on both the hoffman a A3 (rocket)/A3 and A4. The latter was a full-sized design with a range of about few stages 1 E5 m/175 km (109 miles), a top altitude of yamamoto before 1 E4 m/80 km and a payload of about a check slate ton/tonne. This increase in capability had come through a complete redesign of the engine by a rays Walter Thiel. It was clear that Von Braun's designs were turning into real weapons, and Dornberger moved the team from Kummersdorf (near assertively require Berlin) to a small town, footnote tracks Peenemünde, on the island of Usedom on Germany's Baltic Sea/Baltic coast, in order to provide more room for testing and greater secrecy.

The A3 proved to be problematic, and a redesign was started as the A5 (rocket)/A5. This version was completely reliable, and by 1941 the team had fired about 70 A5 (rocket)/A5 rockets. The first A4 flew in March 1942, flying about 1 E3 m/1.6 km and crashing into the water. The second launch reached an altitude of 11 km before exploding. The third rocket, launched on October 3 1942, changed things by following its trajectory perfectly. It landed 193 km away, and became the first man-made object to enter outer space/space.

Production started in 1943 on the wonder weapons/wonder weapon ''Vergeltungswaffe 2'' (reprisal weapon 2), or the V-2 as it became better known, at the insistence of Joseph Goebbels/Goebbels' propaganda ministry. The Allies were already aware of the weapon. At a test site at Blizna in Poland a fired missile had been recovered by Polish resistance agents from the banks of the Western Bug, and vital technical details had been given to British intelligence. The British launched a massive bombing campaign against Peenemünde which slowed testing and production considerably as well as killing many slave workers.

Dornberger had always wanted a mobile launch platform for the missiles, but Hitler pressed for the construction of massive underground blockhouses from which to launch them. V-2s arrived from a number of factories in a continuous stream on several Redundancy/redundant Rail transport/rail lines, and launching was almost continual.

Construction of the first such site started at Eperleques in the Pas-de-Calais area in 1943, but the British spotted it almost immediately and started a massive bombing campaign that eventually forced the Germans to abandon it. Another site was then started nearby in a huge quarry and called La Coupole, but it wasn't long before that too was bombed into submission. Eventually they gave up on the area and moved to the south near Cherbourg, but once again the site was discovered and bombed this time while the cement was still wet.

The plan was changed to build large truck-towed trailers for the missiles. An entire convoy for the missile, men, equipment and fuel required about thirty trucks. The missile was delivered to a staging area on a ''Vidalwagen'' and the local crews would fit the warhead. Launch teams would then transfer their missile to their own ''Meillerwagen'' and tow it to the launch site. There it was erected onto the launch table, fueled, and launched.

The missile could be launched practically anywhere, roads running though forests being a particular favourite. The system was so mobile and small that not one Meillerwagen was ever caught in action.

= Peenemünde test launch list (until July 1943) =



Tag: Rockets and missiles
Tag: Vergeltungswaffe
Tag: Weapons of Germany
Tag: World War II weapons

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