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V-2
rocket - V2
The V-2 rocket was an early ballistic missile used by
Germany during the latter stages of World War II against
mostly British and Belgian targets.
Table of contents
1 Pre-operational History
2 Operational history
3 Post-War V-2 Usage
4 Technical Details
5 Influences
Pre-operational History
As early as 1927 members of the German Rocket Society had
started experimenting with liquid-fueled rockets. By 1932
the Reichswehr started taking notice of their
developments for potential long-range artillery use, and
a team led by General Walter Dornberger was shown a test
vehicle designed and flown by Wernher von Braun. Although
the rocket was of limited ability, Dornberger saw Von
Braun's genius and pushed for him to join the military.
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Von Braun did, and
eventually most of the other members of the society did
too. In December 1934 Von Braun scored another success
with the flight of the A2 rocket, a small model powered
by ethanol and liquid oxygen, with work on the design
continuing in an attempt to improve reliability.
By 1936 the team had moved on from the A2 and started
work on both the A3 and A4. The later was a full-sized
design with a range of about 175 km (109 miles), a top
altitude of 80 km and a payload of about a tonne. It was
clear that Von Braun's designs were turning into real
weapons, and Dornberger moved the team from Kummersdorf
(near Berlin) to a small town, Peenem?nde, on the island
of Usedom on Germany's 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. This version was completely reliable,
and by 1941 the team had fired about 70 A5 rockets. The
first A4 flew in March 1942, flying about 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 space as well
as the first man-made machine to exceed the speed of
sound.
Production started in 1943 on the Vergeltungswaffe 2
(reprisal weapon 2), or the V-2 as it became better
known, at the insistence of Goebbels' propaganda
ministry. The Allies were already aware of the weapon. At
a test site at Bliza in Poland a fired missile had been
recovered by Polish resistance agents from the banks of
the River Bug, and vital technical details had been given
to British intelligence. They launched a massive bombing
campaign against Peenem?nde which slowed testing and
production considerably.
Dornberger had always wanted a mobile launch platform for
the missiles, but Hitler pressed for the construction of
massive underground blockhaus structures to launch from.
V-2s arrived from a number of factories in a continuous
stream on several redundant rail lines, and launching was
almost continual.
The first such site started construction 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 give up on it.
Another site was then started nearby in a huge quarry,
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. The entire convoy for the missile, men,
equipment and fuel required about 30 trucks. The missile
was delivered to a staging area on a Vidalwagen and then
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.
V2 Operational history
Dora : crematorium. V-2 mass production was conducted at
underground slave labour camps named Dora, near
Nordhausen, Germany. About 10,000 slaves died of overwork
or at the hands of their guards from the SS. These slaves
were mostly prisoners of war but many were French and
Soviet.
The first unit to reach operational status was Batterie
444 . On September 2 1944 they formed up to launch
attacks on Paris, recently liberated, and eventually set
up near Houffalize in Belgium. The next day the 485th
moved to The Hague for operations against London. Several
launch attempts over the next few days were failures, but
on the 8th both groups fired successfully.
This was the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few months
the total number fired was:
At Belgium
Antwerp 1610
Liege 27
Hasselt 13
Tournai 9
Mons 3
Diest 2
At France
Lille 25
Paris 22
Tourcoing 19
Arras 6
Cambrai 4
At England
London 1358
Norwich/Ipswich 44
At Germany
Remagen 11
At the Netherlands
Maastricht 19
On 3 March 1945 the allies attempted to destroy V-2s and
launching equipment near The Hague by a large-scale
bombardment, but due to navigational errors the
Bezuidenhout quarter was destroyed, killing 500
civilians.
The V-2 was militarily ineffective. Its guidance systems
were too primitive to hit specific targets, and its costs
were approximately equivalent to four-engined bombers,
which were more accurate (though only in a relative sense
- see discussion in strategic bomber), had longer ranges,
carried many more warheads, and were reusable.
Nevertheless, it had a considerable psychological effect
as, unlike bombing planes or the V1 Flying Bomb, which
made a characteristic buzzing sound, the V-2 travelled
faster than the speed of sound, with no warning before
impact and no possibility of defense.
Post-War V-2 Usage
US test launch. At the end of the war a race started to
retrieve as many V2 rockets and staff as possible. Under
Operation Paperclip three hundred train loads of V-2s and
parts were captured and returned to the United States, as
well as 126 of the principal designers, including both
Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger. For several
years afterward, the United States rocketry program made
use of the supply of unused V-2 rockets left from the
war. One of these modified V2s, in a test flight in the
late 1940s, reached a then-record altitude of 400 km (250
miles). Many of these rockets were used for peaceful
purposes, including upper-atmosphere research.
Von Braun went to work for the US Army's Redstone
Arsenal, eventually settling in Huntsville, Alabama in
1950. He quickly became the father of almost all US
rocketry, working on the Redstone, Jupiter, Jupiter-C,
Pershing, and Saturn rockets.
The USSR also captured a number of V-2s and staff,
letting them set up in Germany for a time. In 1946 they
were moved to the USSR where Groettrup headed up a group
of just under 250 engineers. Starting with the V-2 they
developed a number of new missile designs which would
eventually lead to the SCUD missile. However, their
designs were not put directly into production; instead,
local designers would incorporate the better features
into their own designs. In this way the Soviet Union
built up its own rocket design experience. The German
team was eventually repatriated in the 1950s after the
local design teams had drained them of all their
knowledge.
The British also captured a small number of V-2 missiles,
and launched several of them from a site in northern
Germany under Operation Backfire. However the engineers
involved had already agreed to move to the US when the
test firings were complete. The Backfire report however
remains the most extensive technical documentation of the
rocket, including all support procedures, tailored
vehicles and fuel composition.
V2 Technical Details
The V2 had an operational range of about 300 km (200
miles) carrying a 1000 kg (2000 lb) warhead.
The V2 was propelled by a mixture of alcohol (ethanol)
and water, combined with liquid oxygen. The turbo fuel
pumps were propelled by hydrogen peroxide. The
water-alcohol mixture was kept in a tank of aluminium to
save weight, which put a high pressure on German war
economy, as this metal was rare and valuable.
The fuel was pumped through the walls of the main burner,
so that it would heat the mixture and at the same time
cool the burner, so that it wouldn't melt from the heat.
The fuel was then pumped into a main burner chamber
through several nozzles, which assured the correct
mixture of alcohol and oxygen at all times.
Some later V-2s used "guide beams" (i.e. radio
signals transmitted from the ground), to navigate the
missile toward its target, but the first models used a
simple analog computer that would adjust the azimuth for
the rocket, and the flying distance was controlled by the
amount of fuel, so that when the fuel ran out
"brennschluss", the rocket would stop
accelerating and soon reach the top of the parabolic
flight curve.
The painting of the operational V-2s was mostly a
camouflage ragged pattern with several variations, but in
the end of the war a plain olive green rocket also
appeared. During tests, the rocket was painted in a
characteristic black/white chessboard pattern which aided
in determining if the rocket was spinning around its own
longitudinal axis.
V2 Influences
The V2 rocket plays a major part in Thomas Pynchon's
novel Gravity's Rainbow.
The lunar rocket in Tintin's comic's books Destination
Moon and Explorers on the Moon looks like a V2.
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In
October 1945, British Operation Backfire
assembled a small number of V2 missiles and
launched three of them from a site in northern
Germany. The engineers involved had already
agreed to move to the US when the test firings
were complete. The Backfire report remains the
most extensive technical documentation of the
rocket, including all support procedures,
tailored vehicles and fuel composition. In his
book My Father's Son, Canadian author Farley
Mowat, then a member of the Canadian Army, claims
to have obtained a V-2 rocket in 1945 and shipped
it back to Canada, where it is alleged to have
ended up in the National Exhibition grounds in
Toronto.
Post-war V-2s launched in secret from Peenem?nde
may have been responsible for a curious
phenomenon known as Ghost rockets, unexplained
objects crossing the skies over Sweden and
Finland.[citation needed]
The Canadian Arrow, a competitor for the Ansari X
Prize, was based on the aerodynamic design of the
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Turn-based WW2
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game missions, game campaigns and 40 ship,
submarine, airplane ana port artillery types,
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Fashion Tycoon is
a business fashion management game.
You'll build your multinational fashion company,
destroy competition, hire employees, fashion
models and businessman, establish company
objects, run fashion shows and brand campaigns.
There is a more than 30 missions with different
game objectives. You can hire more than 100
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Turn-based space
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conflict on tactical level.
The user-friendly game engine allows more than 60
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cruisers, death-stars, stealth units, star
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Tycoon Strategy
Game - build your own world business empire as an
arms dealer tycoon. Travel around the world,
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the summer and autumn of 1940, the Luftwaffe lost
the Battle of Britain over the skies of England,
the first all-air battle. Following the military
failures on the Eastern Front, from 1942 onwards,
the Luftwaffe went into a steady, gradual decline
that saw it outnumbered and overwhelmed by the
sheer number of Allied aircraft being deployed
against it. Towards the end of the war, the
Luftwaffe was no longer a major factor, and
despite fielding advanced aircraft like the
Messerschmitt Me 262, Heinkel He 162, Arado Ar
234, and Me 163 was crippled by fuel shortages
and a lack of trained pilots. There was also very
little time to develop these aircraft, and could
not be produced fast enough by the Germans, so
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