V-2: Hitler’s Wunderwaffe - Out Now! #ww2 #shorts

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[WorldWarTwo]

Wernher von Braun was a member of the SS and visited the notorious Mittelwerk underground factory where slave labourers worked in atrocious conditions to build his rockets. But, after being plucked from Europe by the United States, von Braun will take NASA to the moon. By the end of his career, he’ll have been decorated by both Hitler and US President Gerald Ford.

[robcat]

During WWII the British were able to fool the Germans into mis-targeting the V2s by publicly reporting V2 strikes that were beyond the real impact sites, causing the Germans to adjust their guidance systems to "compensate"... causing the rockets to then fall short of intended targets.

[cax]

Hitler probably pulled the Kar98k from the mystery box

[AnyoneCanSee]

My dad lived through the blitz and he told me that they made a particular buzzing noise. They'd listen and it was when the noise cut out that you knew it was falling. He told me one night all the window blew in on his side of the house and he ran into his parent's room shouting a bomb had dropped in the back garden. It was actually a block away and the houses where it dropped were gone. They sent him to Scotland the next day.
The best thing that happened to him as a wealthy family took him in for the war and he went to a private school in Scotland.
So that German bomb had the unexpected outcome of making my father an architect.
Life really is very strange indeed. That a German bomb can change the fortunes of an entire family for the better for generations to come. Sorry waffled.

[joejoejoe]

No obnoxious music, no stupid cartoonish animations or sound effects. Just a dude behind a desk discussing history showing real pictures and footage from the time. I am subscribing

[johnyarbrough]

Tom Lehrer:
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.

[simondalton]

What if the guy that invented this rocket was given almost unlimited money and resources? I bet he could get a man to the moon!

[ciaranmcguinness]

The V1 and V2 would have been even more scary to deal with as a civilian than a plane, at least with the planes you could hear them coming, with the V1 you could hear it at first until its engines cut out then it was just a case of luck if it landed near you or not, the V2 however made no sound and you wouldn't know anything about it until the explosion that rocked the streets and buildings where it impacted, truly terrifying

[carlgreisheimer]

If anything there is the V-2 accomplished is that it helped to lay further groundwork for spacetravel. Then again it also furthered groundwork for ICBMs.

[TheEulerID]

They would have to do something about the guidance system, which was woefully lacking. As it is, the V2 was only useful as a terror weapon, and was, militarily speaking, useless due to the inaccuracy and, what was worse, drained a huge amount of resources from more effective weapons.

[CG-rryx]

Perhaps even more important for today's perspective on the history of engineering, the V-2 rocket was the first vehicle to fly into the outer space. During a test launch in June 1944, the A-4 rocket (its name in the project / development phase) reached an altitude of 176 km. This was well above the "edge" of space (Karman line at 100 km), agreed upon many years later .

[khyr]

Belgium, in general, took 2000 V2 rockets, most aimed at the port of Antwerp.

[danielgordon]

Gravity's Rainbow is a fictional account of the development of the v2 and the plot is structured to resemble a rocket adjusting itself in midair after a launch. Great book if you love the weirdness of the transitional postwar period

[SuiLagadema]

I'm gonna catch flak for this no matter what. It was a good start for ballistic missile technology, but when your precision is "as long as it lands in England" and also "not in the launch pad", something's very wrong with your weapon.

[advorak]

Actually, the A-4 steered by either graphite rudders in the nozzle and/or small control surfaces on the tail.

Once the engine is turned off, there is no more steering. It’s a ballistic rocket, following a ballistic, unpowered, not controlled, path — like a bullet. That’s what “ballistic” means.

Anyway, the only steering capabilities the A-4 has even with the engine running, is attitude: pitch (tilt as per program, gyroscope controlled), yaw (keep, don’t change, gyroscope), roll (kindly do not!, gyroscope) and engine half-power and cut-off (controlled by an integrating accelerometer). No wings, no lifting body, so the attitude does nothing without the engine pushing.

[DreckbobBratpfanne]

You can still see the startup area where they invented it (NE Germany, Peememünde) + a very large museum for it. Recommend.

[jimmilton]

didnt know the wunderwaffle dg-2 was real!!!

[exsubmariner]

I'm lucky enough to have a V2 impact site all to my own on the Kent mud flats 100 kilos recovered so far including two complete graphite steering veins

[robcat]

It wouldn't matter if they did finish such a rocket. They didn't have the raw material resources to build significant numbers and even if they did they would still be overwhelmed by the far greater capacity of the the west and the USSR to build conventional weapons and man armies.

[freakyflow]

#1 The V2 rocket has a analog computer that turned the fins And gyros to the needed heading Was was better than the V1 which just had a gyro to keep it level once launched And fuel ran out
#2 Germany had a V3 "London Cannon" in the works which would shoot a a 215-pound shell nearly 100 miles into the heart of London...50 of these guns were to be made when the RAF was bombing them The Germans hoped to send 3000 rounds a day which would of wiped out London in a few days ..Safer cheaper faster..