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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 ().
Germany developed a number of surface-to-air missile systems, none of which was used operationally: Enzian [4] Rheintochter (Rhine Daughter) [5] - (an air-to-air variant was also planned) [6] Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (Butterfly) - radio-controlled (an air-to-air variant was also planned) [7] Wasserfall (Waterfall) [8] Feuerlilie (Fire Lily ...
The forward support pylon for the Reichenberg crewed V-1 resembles a broad-chord version of the American Loon's similar component. In the summer of 1944, the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) at Ainring took on the task of developing a crewed version of the Fi 103, an example was made ready for testing within days and a production line ...
V-1 flying bomb V-2 missile V-3 cannon. V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German pronunciation: [fɐˈgɛltʊŋsˌvafṇ], German: "retaliatory weapons", "reprisal weapons"), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly strategic bombing and aerial bombing of cities.
The robot was sub-contracted by centers like Bruns Werke and Neidersachswerfen's Mittelwerk. The unpiloted aircraft was assembled at the KdF-Stadt (now Wolfsburg) [a] Volkswagenwerke ("Volkswagen works", described as "the largest pressed-steel works in Germany" [1]) at Fallersleben, [2] and at the Mittelwerk, underground factory in central Germany.
Military intelligence on the V-1 and V-2 weapons [3] developed by the Germans for attacks on the United Kingdom during the Second World War was important to countering them.: 437 Intelligence came from a number of sources and the Anglo-American intelligence agencies used it to assess the threat of the German V-weapons.
A guide to the General Government, the Polish land occupied by Germany, was published in 1943. Source: Marian Mark Drozdowski, The history of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer , Polin, Vol. 3, 1988, pp. 189–199, cited in T. Snyder, Blood Lands , Vintage, 2010, p. 145.
The involvement of German scientists and engineers was an essential catalyst to early Soviet efforts. In 1945 and 1946 the use of German expertise was invaluable in reducing the time needed to master the intricacies of the V-2 rocket, establishing production of the R-1 rocket and enabling a base for