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German V2 Rocket Launch Failures

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The V2 had numerous glitches that needed fixing before going into mass production.

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  • bullshit!

    our scientists did NOT emigrate.
    they were emigrated by the us-troops and government.

    By m31337u 1164378629 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • somewhat wrong

      Von Braun and some of his scientific staff escaped from Nazis Germany late in the war and met up with US troops. The others either stayed in Germany or were captured by the Soviet army and used to build their space program.

      By Raptorcat 1249606085 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Jobless Scientists 1945

      London Town had only been a testsite for W.v. Braun to make it to the moon one day. This dream could now only be fulfilled via America or Russia. V.B. chose America (with his broken arm) over Russia taking a six pack of V2's and 40 scientists with him. Next thing> crashed "V3's" and such with monkeys inside becoming the stuff for the myths of UFO's with the help of the ever present superstitious mind of the public. And so on. Without the V2 no UFO!

      By Rocket888 1179866494 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • that's true

      after the war the US were eager to get their hands on any new technology developed by German engineers and scientists. and usually they tried to take the engineers and scientist with them, too. just like the Russians dismantled complete factories in order to rebuild them on their own territory. there was something like a competition between US and Russia to get hold of new inventions. for example also the first jet airplane was inventet and build in Germany and then brought to the US.

      By fede23 1168950151 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Wrongo, dude

      The first jet was not in Germany. The first jet in mass production and into combat service was in Germany. Get your facts straight.

      By BITCHY1 1221749246 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • heres how the guidance worked

    The V-2 was guided by a gyroscopic inertial navigation system controlling four external rudders on the tail fins, and four internal rudders, made of graphite, at the exit of the motor. The LEV-3 guidance system consisted of two free gyroscopes (a horizon and a verticant) for lateral stabilization, and a gyroscopic accelerometer connected to an electrolytic integrator (engine cut-off occurred when a thin coating of silver was electrochemically eroded off of a poorly conducting base). 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 moment of engine cut-off, "Brennschluss", ground controlled by a Doppler system or by different types of on-board integrating accelerometers. The rocket would stop accelerating and soon reach the top of the (approximately parabolic) flight curve.

    By keyvin 1163679078 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • V2 and V1

    The V1 was a guided missile. It used a radio tracking system that used the differential between 2 transmission stations on the french coast to determine its final destination in England. When it reached it, the motor cut out, the elevators locked down and the missile went straight down.
    The V2 was the first to use inertial guidance which is what modern ballistic missiles use. The CEP was very low so at best you just aimed at an entire city and hoped you hit something. The V2 was more dangerous because you didn't get a warning it was coming.

    By Steve Savage 1163614750 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Another piece of german engineering

    This movie shows the germans can do it all...amazing

    By Tokrah 1161701932 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Poor camera man

    Must have pissed himself watching that crazy rocket flying everywhere.

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  • V1 versus V2

    The V1 rocket was an unguided missle. Firing it was like shooting an arrow from a bow. Once fired, the path could not be altered. The V2 rocket was a guided missle. It had a guidance system which could adjust the path of the rocket while in flight. This adjustment allowed improved targeting of the missle.

    By JasK19 1158775212 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Not true

      I'm a military history enthusiast and your comments on the V1/V2 are not true.
      1) The V1 was a small pilotless airplane driven by a pulse-jet engine that used a dumb propellor to measure distance. At the preset distance, the engine cut out, the wings fell off and the resulting 'bomb' fell from the sky.
      2) The V2 was a purely ballistic missile. It was aimed from the launch point by tilting the firing table ('launch pad') in the intended direction. It rose to a height of 50 statute miles under the thrust of a kerosine/LOX rocket motor which only burned for about 2 minutes. The rest of the flight was under its own momentum. It hit the target at a speed of about mach 2 with a 1ton conventional HE warhead.

      On neither weapon was any kind of guidance mechanism used. The V2 used a 3 vector gyro mechanism to keep its alignment straight but targetting was purely ballistic in exactly the same way that modern (ie post 1958) ICBMs were 'targetted' - by tilting.

      TheProf.

      By TheProf 1163198759 Reply Spam [+4] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • hey Jask19

      you've been watching the history channel weren't you? :P

      By /*\ME/*\ 1184963503 Reply Spam [-2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Not mentioned in the clip...

    20,000 slave laborers worked on V@ construction. I doubt they had much quality control incentive.

    By justbob09 1158709307 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Dora Concentration Camp

      The labor for the V2 programme at Nordhausen was supplied mainly from the concentration camp at Dora. The 'quality control incentive' was very real indeed and far too inhumane to mention on a public posting area. That said, sabotage attempts did happen - usually by the welders not using hot enough welding rods. The idea was that the rocket fell apart during or shortly after launch. A few sabotage attempts did work and the weapon fell back onto German soil! We can only guess at the fate of the crews who worked on those ones.

      By TheProf 1163199314 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
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