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Vergeltungswaffe 1 & Spitfire

Spitfire Pilot Rams a V1 Rocket with His Plane > .

The Insane Engineering of the Spitfire - Real Engineering > .

Supermarine Spitfire | Effective WW2 Fighter Aircraft - HiHi > .

V-1 & V-2 Flying Bombs | Hitler's ~~secret~~ vengeance weapons > .

V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile - Mega > .

Spitfire vs V-1 Flying Bomb - asvp > .

Why the V1 Flying Bomb couldn't turn the tide of WW2 - IWM > .

In 1944, RAF pilot, Ken Collier, has emptied his guns in a desperate attempt to take down a German V1 rocket. Refusing to give up, he flies right up to the rocket, and tries to ram it off course.

V-3 Cannon ..
Vergeltungswaffe 1 & Spitfire ..

Vergeltungswaffe 2 & America Space Rockets ..

Vergeltungswaffe 2 & America Space Rockets

The V-2 Missile Heist - mfp > .

V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile - Mega > .

V-1 & V-2 Flying Bombs | Hitler's ~~secret~~ vengeance weapons > .

V2 - America Rocket to A9-A10 - WW2 German Space Weapon > .

V-2 Rocket: Nazi Germany - World's 1st Guided Ballistic Missile - Mega > .

V-1 & V-2 Flying Bombs | Hitler's ~~secret~~ vengeance weapons > .

Poaching Brains post-WW2

Operation Paperclip: Recruiting Nazi Brains for the USA - 1 - WW2 Doc > .

How This Nazi Engineer Took America to the Moon - athe > .
Wernher von Braun: From Nazis to NASA - ScSh > .
How Ex-Nazis & Jewish Scientists Took The U.S. To The Moon > .

The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during WW2 in Germany as a "vengeance weapon", assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first man-made object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.

Research into military use of long-range rockets began when the studies of graduate student Wernher von Braun attracted the attention of the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated in the A-4, which went to war as the V-2. Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, and a further 12,000 forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners died as a result of their forced participation in the production of the weapons.

As Germany collapsed, teams from the Allied forces—the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—raced to capture key German manufacturing sites and technology. Wernher von Braun and over 100 key V-2 personnel surrendered to the Americans and many of the original V-2 team ended up working at the Redstone Arsenal. The US also captured enough V-2 hardware to build approximately 80 of the missiles. The Soviets gained possession of the V-2 manufacturing facilities after the war, re-established V-2 production, and moved it to the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket .

Paperclip - poaching German scientists ..

V-3 Cannon ..
Vergeltungswaffe 1 & Spitfire ..

Vergeltungswaffe 2 & America Space Rockets ..

Wunderwaffen

Germany's Wonder-Weapons | Armchair > .

? Wunderwaffe ?

Wunderwaffe is German for "wonder weapon" and was a term assigned during World War II by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry to some revolutionary "superweapons". Most of these weapons however remained prototypes, which either never reached the combat theater, or if they did, were too late or in too insignificant numbers to have a military effect.

The V-weapons, which were developed earlier and saw considerable deployment, especially against London and Antwerp, trace back to the same pool of highly inventive armament concepts. Therefore, they are also included here.

As the war situation worsened for Germany from 1942, claims about the development of revolutionary new weapons which could turn the tide became an increasingly prominent part of the propaganda directed at Germans by their government. In reality, the advanced weapons under development generally required lengthy periods of design work and testing, and there was no realistic prospect of the German military being able to field them before the end of the war. When some advanced designs, such as the Panther tank and Type XXI submarine, were rushed into production, their performance proved disappointing to the German military and leadership due to inadequate pre-production testing or poorly planned construction processes. Historian Michael J. Neufeld has noted that "the net result of all these weapons, deployed or otherwise, was that the Reich wasted a lot of money and technical expertise (and killed a lot of forced and slave laborers) in developing and producing exotic devices that yielded little or no tactical and strategic advantage". However, a few weapons proved to be successful and have had a large influence in post war designs.

In the German language the term Wunderwaffe generally refers to a universal solution which solves all problems related to a particular issue, mostly used ironically for its illusionary nature.

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..