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2. V-2 rocket - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Aggregat - Wikipedia

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   The Aggregat series (German for "Aggregate") was a set of ballistic missile designs developed in 1933–1945 by a research program of Nazi Germany's Army . Its greatest success was the A4, more commonly known as the V2 .

4. Mittelwerk - Wikipedia

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   Mittelwerk GmbH also headed sites for V-2 rocket development and testing at Schlier (Project Zement) and Lehesten. [4] Beginning in May 1944, [ 2 ] Georg Rickhey was the Mittelwerk general manager, [ 5 ] Albin Sawatzki was the Mittelwerk technical director over both Arthur Rudolph 's Technical Division [ 5 ] (with deputy Karl Seidenstuecker ...

5. Hans Kammler - Wikipedia

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   Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – after October 1945 [a]) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret V-weapons program. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and Emergency Fighter Programs towards the end of World War II.

6. German influence on Soviet rocketry - Wikipedia

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   In September 1948 test flights were carried on the R-1, the Soviet copy of the V-2 rocket, built with local materials. No German personnel were present for these tests at Kapustin Yar. [47] [48] In December 1948 the updated plan for the G-1 rocket, which the German team had improved the range and accuracy, was reviewed and acknowledged with a ...

7. V-2 rocket facilities of World War II - Wikipedia

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   [6]: 142 As the rocket campaign started in early September 1944 liquid oxygen was produced at five sites: underground installations at the Redl-Zipf (5 machines generating ca. 300 tons/month) and Lehesten (9 machines) rocket engine test facilities, an old mine in Wittring/Sarreguemines (5 machines), an old steel plant in Liège Tilleur (5 ...

8. Operation Crossbow - Wikipedia

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   Crossbow was the code name in World War II for Anglo-American operations against the German long range reprisal weapons (V-weapons) programme. The primary V-weapons were the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, which were launched against Britain from 1944 to 1945 and used against continental European targets as well.

9. Walter Dornberger - Wikipedia

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   Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 – 26 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II.He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre.