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The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph) in level flight.
109-006 Junkers/Heinkel 006. 109-007 Daimler-Benz 007. 109-011 Heinkel HeS 011, key late-war German development turbojet (only 19 examples built) 109-012 Junkers 012 – developed into the Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop engine. 109-014 Argus As 014 pulsejet. 109-016 Daimler-Benz 016 turbojet. 109-018 BMW 018 turbojet.
List of jet aircraft of World War II. A captured Messerschmitt Me 262, the most numerous jet fighter of World War II. World War II was the first war in which jet aircraft participated in combat with examples being used on both sides of the conflict during the latter stages of the war. The first successful jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, flew ...
The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1" [a]) was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi 103[3] and its suggestive name was Höllenhund (hellhound). It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug[4][b] and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherry stone ...
A post-war SHAEF report estimated V-Bombs had been responsible for killing 5,000 people and injuring a further 21,000, mostly in the cities of Antwerp and Liège. [32] On 17 March 1945 eleven V-2 rockets were fired at the Ludendorf rail bridge across the Rhine at Remagen on Hitler's orders (see Battle of Remagen). This was the only time they ...
RP-3. The RP-3 (from Rocket Projectile 3 inch) was a British air-to-ground rocket projectile introduced during the Second World War. The "3 inch" designation referred to the nominal diameter of the rocket motor tube. The use of a 60 lb (27 kg) warhead gave rise to the alternative name of the "60-pound rocket". Though an air-to-ground weapon, it ...
Hellmuth Walter (26 August 1900 – 16 December 1980) was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines.His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 [1]: 174 and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, so-called Starthilfe jettisonable rocket propulsion units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a ...