V2 Rocket

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[MrGoodBoy151]

Where is the audio from?

[azazel87]

@MrGoodBoy151 It's from some V2 rocket mission in one of the medal of honor games.

[isdonisgood]

amazing german engineering

[windex1122]

not sayen im for nazism but germans are really good at engineering and building. they invented the first ballistic missle and the atom bomb.

[MrGoodBoy151]

@azazel87 Thanks

[rw5791]

@fluffy1931 u answered my question.The germans could have easily had their electrostatic proximity fuse ready by '43.They simply didn't see the big picture.First,they needed to keep their discovery of nuclear fission top secret.(no communications involving the nuclear program allowed on enigma.Courier only.)Second,they needed to begin building their reactor in 1938-39.The nuclear bomb was beyond german capability but they could have killed thousands of english with radiation poisioning.

[fluffy1931]

@rw5791 ..,German research developement of proximity fuses continued throughout the 1930s, work at Rheinmetal was halted in 1940 and briefly restarted in 1944' until factory was over-run by allies.

They had the option of using detonation induced either by direct contact, or a timer set at launch, or an altimeter all of which proved unsatisfactory.

In contrast the US developed & produced 22 million proximity fuses from 1942-1945'.

[rw5791]

@fluffy1931 I would think the germans could figure out a way to get a v2 airburst.But they didn't have enough radioactive material to make a dirty bomb anyway.It's a pity really,the germans actually discovered nuclear fission and didn't know it so they sent their results to a dutch physicist who alerted the allies.

[fluffy1931]

@rw5791 ..,only in your 'epic fantasy' dude. The V-2 after launch and flight buried itself in the target area before or just as the warhead detonated. The V-2 lacked a proximity fuse, so it could not be set for air burst.

[rw5791]

the germans could have put radioactive material in the v2 and then exploded it over london.A "dirty bomb" if you will.No collateral damage by they still could have killed a lot of limeys and created some havoc.

[candr]

@fluffy1931 Ture enough, but most of his research was in (of all places) Rosewell, New Mexico LOL. But there were many before him with non liquid fuels such as Dr. Clarence Hickman who researched for the Army in Maryland back in 1918, he also assisted Goddard in his research (Hickman responsible for the shoulder mounted anti-tank rockets, Bazooka) . Today you got a combination of the two, the main rockets of the shuttle to get it off the ground is solid fuel, and the secondary is liquid fuel.

[fluffy1931]

@candr Dr. Robert Goddard was the father of modern rocket propulsion.

On March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass