German V2 Rocket Launch Failures

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!

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.

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

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.

Braun was veiwed as a high value target by U.S. intelligence because of the key role had had played in the development of the V2.

Operation Paperclip was the evacuation of all the intelligentsia for Human intelligence gathering or "HumIntGath" (Human intelligence gathering) before the Russians could take them.

This resulted in over one hundred German scientists being brought to the U.S. together with secret research papers. Among these were papers on research into various propulsion techniques and experimental designs for electric lift magnets and U F O gyroscope type reconnaissance vehicles.

All of this ultimately led to Von Braun becoming director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Centre, and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle and the Apollo program which put a man on the Moon.

Von Braun also worked with Nobel Prize winner Arthur Rudolph on Anti-satellite weapon research.

Von Braun who died in 1977, also worked with Walt Disney making educational films and became immensely popular.

Nonetheless both Von Braun and Rudolph were the focus of blackmail attempts by Mossad to steal classified information under the threat of smears against their names and remained targets for hate mongers who had axes to grind from W.W.II.

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.

Siemens of Berlin (Dr. Friedrich Kirchstein) developed the V-2 radio-control for motor-cut-off (German: Brennschluss),[15]:28,124 and for velocity measurement, in 1940-41, Professor Wolman of Dresden created an alternative of his Doppler[23]:18 tracking system which used a ground signal transponded by the A-4 to measure the velocity of the missile.[2]:103 By 9 February 1942, Peenemuende engineer de Beek had documented the radio interference area of a V-2 as 10,000 meters around the “Firing Point”,[21] and the first successful A-4 flight on 3 October 1943, used radio control for Brennschluss.[14]:12 Although, Hitler commented on 22 September 1943, that "It is a great load off our minds that we have dispensed with the radio guiding-beam; now no opening remains for the British to interfere technically with the missile in flight",[15]:138 about 20% of the operational V-2 launches were beam-guided.[14]:12 The Operation Pinguin V-2 offensive began on 8 September 1944, when Lehr- und Versuchsbatterie No. 444[23]:51-2 (English: Training and Testing Battery 444) launched a single rocket guided by a radio beam directed at Paris[21]:47 (wreckage of combat V-2s occasionally contained the transponder for velocity and fuel cutoff).[13]:259-60

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

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.

yes! And NASA has its booster rockets assembled by Al-Qaida.
Having prisoners working in a sensitive high-tech area is just b.s. The chance of sabotage is way too great.