V-1 & V-2 German Rockets

Yeah he knows very lot about germans nukes. :wink:

The german V- bombs were huge and effective especially against London, it cost alot of money to make that kind of bomb in Germany.
The V-1 was a simple and cheap cruise missile launched by the thousands against Great Britain and Antwerpe, the main port supplying the Allied armies advancing from Normandy.
The V1 Rocket
V-1 Fieseler Fi 103 (FZG 76)
Role: medium range flying bomb ( cruise missile )
Manafacturer:
Country: Germany

Dimensions:
Wing Span: 17 ft, 7.5 in (5.37 m)
Length: 25 ft, 11 in (7.9 m)
Diameter: 2 ft, 7 in (0.8 m)
Height: 4 ft, 77/8 in (1.42 m)

Launch Weight: 4,750 lb (2152 kg)

Engine: One Argus As 109-014 pulse jet
Thrust: 660 lb (300 kg)
Propellants: 568 liters (150 U.S. Gal) 80 octane petrol

Maximum Speed: 390 - 410 mph (624 - 656 km/h)
Typical Ceiling: 2,500 ft (760 m)
Max. Ceiling: 10,000 ft (3050 m)
Range: 150 mi (240 km)
Endurance: 2 hours and 30 seconds

Warhead: 1,832 lb (830 kg) Amatol

FZG 76
flakzielgerat - flak aiming device 76

  • cover name for V-1 project

The V2 Rocket…
The V-2 cost many times the cost of a V-1 buzz bomb but caused about the same amount of damage since the missile pentrated the ground before exploding. Unlike the V-1, though, the launchers for the V-2 were quite mobile, including the Meillerwagen which carried the missile itself. Militarily the V-2 and the Vengeance weapons in general were a failure and a drain on precious resources.

Number Built: about 10,000
Number Launched: 4,320 with another 600 expended in training.

The V-2 campaign against England killed 2,754 people and seriously injured 6,523 others.

Targets of V-2 Rocket Launches between September 6, 1944 and March 27, 1945:
Antwrep 1,341
England 1,120
Liège 98
Brussels 65
Paris 15
Remagen Bridge 11
A-4 Vergeltungswaffe-2 V-2
Role: Long Range Ballistic Missile
Manafacturer:
Country: Germany

Maximum Diameter: 5 ft, 61/8 in ( 1.68 m )
Length: 14.03 m ( 46 ft. 3/8 in.)
Span: 3.5 m ( 11 ft. 5 3/4 in.)
Structure: Steel with internal isolation of fibre-glass.
Cladding: Riveted steel plate
Tail unit: movable fins controlled by electrical controls and nozzle vanes with electrohydraulic controls.
Launch Weight: 28,314 lb (12870 kg)
Engine: EMW with a thrust of 27,500 kg ( 60,500 lb. ) and a maximum acceleration of 6 G.
Propellants: 12,200 lb ( 5,533 kg ) of liquid oxygen ( A-Stoff ) and 9,200 lb ( 4,173 kg ) of Methanol ( M-Stoff. )
Pressurizer: T-Stoff (172 kg) and Z-Stoff actuating a turbopump of 730 HP, as well as nitrogen and pressurized air bottles
Equipment: LEV-3 gyroscopic plant, integrated accelerometers ( 1-Gerdt ), and radio control equipment
Warhead: 975 kg ( 907 kg of 60/40 Amatol ) with electrical and mechanical fuses
Maximum speed: 5,760 km/h ( 3,110 mph )
Time of propelled flight: 70 seconds
Ceiling: ( top ) 96,000 m ( 314,880 ft. )
Range: 330 km (178 nm)

Very good Commando Jordovski ,very good. :wink:

Thanks Clauss von Stauffeberg :smiley: :smiley:

Soe good stuff, any source on this? Or is it yours?

Sure Firefly mate, :wink: :wink:

This is the site where i got the info: http://www.ww2guide.com/vweapon.shtml :wink:

Can you imagine why if hitler have V1&V2 Rockets 1939.

wouldn’t have made any difference - they’re not tactical battlefield wpns due to their inaccuracy

Actually dont you reckon they were pretty big rockets but you would expect the explosions to be a bit bigger?
Is that because it has to carry the fuel aswell to travel to bomb places ?

No, the whole thing was filled with explosives and they travelled propelled simply by a firm belief in the FĂźhrer. :twisted:

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No, the whole thing was filled with explosives and they travelled propelled simply by a firm belief in the FĂźhrer. :twisted:[/quote]

Heil hitler! Heil hitler! Heil hitler! yes! yes! Almost there! Heil hitler! Heil hitler! oh shit! @#%*+&" .... =#"$*@l/=+*&%$#

No, the whole thing was filled with explosives and they travelled propelled simply by a firm belief in the FĂźhrer. :twisted:[/quote]

Heil hitler! Heil hitler! Heil hitler! yes! yes! Almost there! Heil hitler! Heil hitler! oh shit! @#%*+&" .... =#"$*@l/=+*&%$#[/quote]

Surely the phrase was 'Higher Hitler, higher !"
:wink:

And fly fuhrer higher and higher :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

V2 in color, ad to the library.

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=v287

Great video there Panzerknacker… It even has one rocket which has a problem, the second to the last :slight_smile:

Yeah it get burns and probably explodes in mid-air. Algo lindo de ver :lol:

Here are some things from several articles I 've researched and written over the years that may help.

GERMANY
The Germans in WW II with the V-1 and V-2 first used strategic missiles in war. In the fact of the V-1, it was the world’s first cruise missile. While we have talked about the un-manned V-1 and the piloted version we will look at the robot in greater detail.

The Fiesler Fi 103 was powered by a 740 lb. thrust Argus 019-014 pulse jet engine. The 1,870 lb. explosive warhead rode in a slim 26-foot fuselage. Stubby wings were attached spanning 17.3 feet. A normal tail plane controlled maneuvering with the pulse jet set above the fuselage.

The nature of the pulsejet’s air ingestion required a 149 MPH speed to commence flight under power so catapult ramps were used for this purpose when air launches were not. Once launched the missile adjusted to its pre-set heading using its gyrocompass. A tiny propeller turned by the air stream unwound during the flight. It was set to the approximate distance of the target. Once the mechanism turned the required number of revolutions the engine was cut off and the missile fell to earth, hopefully over the target. An Askania autopilot made course corrections.

Speed was 350-400 MPH making fighter intercept difficult since the missiles usually flew at around 5,000 feet altitude necessitating the modifications of aero engines in pursuers to produce power at low heights. Fighters had to fire at safe distances to avoid the blast from the warhead but came up with the wing bump-and-flip to tilt the 4,800-pound missiles into to attitudes from which they could not recover.

The 149-mile range was short but, as mentioned, was enhanced by air launch from He 111H-22s and the jet-powered Arado Ar 234B, which could tow an un-powered Fi 103. The ramp-launched version was first fired in mid-June 1944 with around 8,617 used against England and 11,988 more against Continental targets in all. 1,200 of the British number were air-launched at targets in Northern England. 20,000 more were ready for delivery when Germany capitulated.

The A-4 or V-2 was a completely different machine. It weighed 28,229 lbs. and stood 46 feet tall with a fin span of 22.75 feet. The Peenemunde liquid fuel motor developed 56,000-70,000 lbs. thrust during its 68-second burn good for 3,800 MPH and around 125,000 feet altitude making it invulnerable to attack except at the launch site.

While the A-4 was not a true ICBM in the sense we applied during the Cold War, it was the father from which all others later came. It pioneered the concept of mobile launching used to this day for smaller missiles. With an undersized 2,200 lb. Amatol warhead and range of 190 miles the bang for the buck was not relatively efficient. 3,165 were fired against English and European targets from August 1944 on.

Range limitations were assisted by the winged A-4b that could glide as far as 466 miles that never saw operational use though it was tested.

The engine was quite sophisticated for the era and used 75 percent ethyl alcohol and 25 percent water for fuel. Liquid oxygen was used as the oxidant. To ensure constant fuel flow a steam turbine with two centrifugal pumps were powered by T-stoff (hydrogen peroxide) using an aqueous solution of potassium permanganate as a catalyst. This worked where it was impossible at the time to pressurize the fuel tanks with the attendant weight/strength required.

Graphite vanes and fin tabs adjusted the heading input from the pair of LEV-3 gyros and accelerometer. It was all automatic and self-contained on board. Early versions used a radio link input from the ground to shut off the fuel at the critical flight apogee to adjust trajectory to target.

The connected missile project of note was that of the 85 ton A-9/A-10 described earlier.
Though it was only a blueprint, Stalin used it to threaten Truman with its use in 1946. It would be a decade before the USSR would test fire an ICBM.

Though the A-4s are seen in hindsight as ridiculously expensive for ordnance delivery, they were potently frightening for their time.

PEENEMUNDE
For the ultimate WW II VTO experience image piloting Werner von Braun’s A-4 (A stood for Aggregat meaning unit or group in German) or V-2 with a 6,600 MPH speed as the A-9/A-10 two-stage rocket crosses the Atlantic. You set up trajectory for its target then eject and parachute to a waiting U-boat or become a POW for the fatherland. Wanna volunteer?

As we noted the A-9/A-10 would have had the range to cross the ocean. But what worried the Germans was final navigation. It is possible that a robot A-9/A-10 could miss even a city after so great a journey. A fraction of a degree off course would add up after the ocean crossing. Navigation calculations to the eastern US with a winged A-4 were actually done in 1940.

MANNED A-4
For primary test purposes before any more ambitious endeavors a pilot would have to ride and A-4b and guide it back to earth gliding on its wings. Scientists at the time had drawn up ideas for auxiliary ramjets, turbines and landing skids to assist a controlled return.

The winged A-4, which was tested in late 1944 and early 1945, could increase its range from about 270 to 500 miles with those wings. The rocket weighed 35,772 lbs. with its 56,000 lb. thrust engine, fuel and 2,200 lb. warhead filled with Amatol. It stood 46.5 feet tall and had an 11.5-foot wingspan. The speed was about 6,300 MPH. Once releasing the warhead the pilot could glide as far toward home as possible.

MANNED A-6
Von Braun was encouraged by the range boost with the wings and concentrated on long-range manned versions. The A-6 was to be a photo-recon missile. He reasoned that a ramjet using anthracite (hard smokeless coal) could power the engine as a compact fuel to extend flight another 15-20 minutes after the main engine quit.
Once a smaller 27,500 lb. thrust rocket using A-Stoff (liquid oxygen) and M-Stoff (Methanol) launched it to over 311,000 feet the ramjet would then power the ship.

Speed would “only” be 1,800 MPH. The manned A-6 was to be 51.6 feet long with a 20.7-foot wingspan with a pressurized cockpit. After taking photos (were optics of the day good enough for that altitude?) the ship would head home and land on a retractable, tricycle undercarriage and deploy its braking chute.

It may seem wacky but remember the X-15 was conceived and developed along the same lines and once even had a ramjet in the same location as the manned A-6. The X-15 even sported similar stub wings. If the X-15 researched the ramjet at high altitude this knowledge directly benefited the sinister Lockheed Aurora.

MANNED A-9/A-10
The 56,000 lb. thrust engine could be boosted to 67,000 lbs. thrust using Visol-nitric acid burners of the type intended for an improved V-2. It was calculated in 1941 that around 400,000 lbs. thrust was needed to push an A-9/A-10 weighing 85-tons. The much later
American Atlas developed 365,000 lbs. thrust so this was ambitious.

It was possible to use six V-2 engines pouring exhaust through one thrust nozzle until a larger, single chamber engine could be developed in a planned three year’s time. The modern Saturn rocket used multiple engines but not a common nozzle. The A-10 first stage would be an enlarged A-4 layout up to 80 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. It would burn for fifty seconds when the winged A-9 and its 67,000 lb. thrust engine would light up.

Two configurations for the A-9 existed. One looked quite standard and another more like the lifting body fuselage section of the SR-71. The A-7 with this semi-delta wing was the configuration used to test it outside of the wind tunnel. It reduced drag and increased range. The A-9 stood its standard 46.5 feet tall and had an 11.5-foot wingspan with its normal 35,772 lb. weight.

The A-9 would have an ultimate trajectory of 210 miles high reaching 6,600 MPH before cruising to the East coast for a range of 2,700 miles. As mentioned, the pilot would make corrections to target and eject at an undisclosed height and speed probably with the whole cabin as a unit like the DFS 228. At lower altitude the pilot would then take to his personal parachute after the main cabin chute was still assisting its descent. The A-9 would continue to its target with its conventional warhead, an atomic reaction bomb or radiation-spreading device.