Its amazing this wasn't heavily classified in 1947. I guess we were riding high after victory in WWII and didn't see the need.

@mshotz1

Жыл бұрын

Because it was known the Soviets had scrapped together enough pieces of V-2 from Peenemunde to put together a few themselves.

@tz8785

Жыл бұрын

@@mshotz1 More than just a few, they produced an improved copy with the R-1. Although at least in the US, long range missiles weren't too much of a priority yet anyway, 1947 was firmly the time of the the long range bomber.

@captiannemo1587

Жыл бұрын

Germany lost so there wasn’t massive needs to classify it.

@expansionone

Жыл бұрын

the US stole the technology from the Germans. Nothing to hide. The Germans with Wernher von Braun created NASA, engineered the Saturn rocket as well as the moon landing

@maximvf

Жыл бұрын

USSR not only captured enough aerospace engineers, but pushed them into teaching local ones. This is on top of domestic missile development at the end of WWII.

"We aimed for the stars, but sometimes hit London." - Werner von Braun

@dont-want-no-wrench

Жыл бұрын

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

@sciencedavedunning3415

Жыл бұрын

@@dont-want-no-wrench Tom Lerher fan, eh ? Me too ! Von Braun actually sabotaged as many V2 launches as he felt he could get away with. Some blew up upon launch or shortly after, others were made to go off course. Had he been unable to explain away these failures, the Nazis would have killed him. At whites sands there were no such failures whatsoever. His Jupiter heavy lift rocket was cheaper and simpler than the Navy's Saturn 5 but anti Nazi sentiments forced congress to go with the Saturn 5 so as not to lose support from voters. Retaining thier cushy positions is all that influences their decisions.

@petergarbe2459

Жыл бұрын

ihr könnt nicht mal den Namen des Erfinders schreiben, aber lassen wir das ( Wernher von Braun )

@Cazador60140

Жыл бұрын

Creative engineering

@redzipper8570

2 ай бұрын

@@petergarbe2459 I'll help ya with that: Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

what impresses me the most of all the precision craftmaship w/o a single computer or CAD design, or laser miling

A well preserved V2 can be seen very closely at the Imperial War Museum. It’s worth seeing, there is an open up section that reveals tanks and mecanisms… out of this world.

@charlescarter6146

Ай бұрын

There's one at Ft Bliss. But it's outside and all weathered.

Great model rocket tutorial 10/10 worked great

One of the best channels with the best content!

Thank you for the preservation of this film. I visited the White Sands Missile Range Museum in 2018 to view the V2 on display there.

These PeriscopeFilm episodes are great. 09:40 during technical checks it looks like a Simpson meter that we used at work in 1980 11:18 there is a fuel leak! hold the launch for a month! 14:32 notice on the chalkboard X-1 do you remember that radio program X-1? 15:26 high altitude bomber jackets for the cold? 15:41 the first aerobatic rocket does loop-de-loops

@PeriscopeFilm

Жыл бұрын

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I love the fact that they gave it a spiffy logo. I wonder Wernher chose it himself.

I can not believe that is working perfect. Thanks a lot for sharing.

I love when you post v-2 footage and other German military equipment

@flouisbailey

Жыл бұрын

They were more advanced than the governments want to give them credit for.

@turibinosanches4692

Жыл бұрын

It took ten years of arduous research and development overcoming various obstacles, from technical to political problems until German engineers managed to perfect the V-2...

17:53 has such peaceful music

What amazing times to have lived through.

Amazing tech.

Guy putting together the outer shell with a screwdriver he bought from home...😆

12:17 "The pyrotechnic device which will ignite the propulsion unit is set." Basically, they just put a big cigarette lighter in the combustion chamber. No fancy-schmantzy electronic controls here.

@danielcruz8347

Жыл бұрын

Swastika Catherine wheel ignitor

@adamc.sieracki4145

Жыл бұрын

The Soyuz R7 uses something similar. Like the cigar in the Buggs Bunny moon cartoon.

German technology was decades ahead of the rest of the World…..maybe a century. Amazing minds…

Postscript: the technicians handling the fiberglass itched for a week.

Such happy music

@davidirwin4067

Жыл бұрын

It's typically awful background music from military propaganda videos back in those days. Why they did that, I have no idea.

This reminds me of a great documentary I watched about proximity fuzes a while back. I didn't realize how vital they were to winning the war until I started learning about them. I guess you just assumed the shells somehow knew when to explode, but a lot of it was guess work, either using a timer or an altimeter to detonate flak rounds before proximity fuzes were developed. Then suddenly they were able to make the flak rounds explode any distance from a target they wanted. But what's amazing is these things contained components that were basically like a lightbulb. But could withstand being fired out of a howitzer. No transistors to make the electronics able to withstand shock. Just glass vacuum tubes. It really is an amazing feat of engineering. It's just sad that war seems to be the only thing that brings out that kind of ingenuity in people. Btw said documentary about proximity fuzes can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aGF4l5trhrWagrg.html There is also a really good one by Curious Droid. I've always been partial to his videos.

Gosh magnetic plugs!

Funny how rudimentary ICBMs were in their infancy. Everything from the gantry crane and transport trailer had to be invented. Interesting progression of secondary elements.

@donlove3741

Жыл бұрын

Kinda like EVERYTHING was rudimentary in the beginning.

@steve1978ger

Жыл бұрын

V2/A4 never had the range to be an ICBM

@BeingFireRetardant

Жыл бұрын

@@steve1978ger All ICBMs are a direct lineage from the V2 specifically. Took a few decades, but they figured out the solutions.

@armija

Жыл бұрын

V2 is NOT ICBM

@armija

Жыл бұрын

@@BeingFireRetardant Yes but still V2 was not ICBM

Von Braun must have already been in Huntsville frying bigger fish

@swingrfd

Жыл бұрын

At the time of this film he was still at Fort Bliss training military, industrial, and university personnel in the intricacies of rockets and guided missiles. He didn't get to Huntsville until 1950.

Love that they did all of this with slide rules and a million failures!

One of the best films yet on the V2 rocket much information but I haven’t seen before

Thats was really interesting.. thanks 👍

Very cool

There's still some bits and pieces of those around the museum warehouse on post

Ahhhh, operation paperclip in operation.

@Handle0i

11 ай бұрын

Butte , a eroded , PS , " O HENRY , ( ALL )

Ein schöner Film über die Montage, so noch nie gesehen. Bei uns war das bis 1945 GKdos, da wird es nicht viel Material geben.

Early clean rooms

Was it me or was some Butter Bar smoking while they were loading the LOX?

@cheems5643

Жыл бұрын

BACK IN MY DAT WE SHOWERED IN JET FUEL

@oskarbud525

Жыл бұрын

It's OK he didn't inhale.

Imagine if the Germans destroyed all the V2 rockets towards the end of the war (like they did their other military equipment). That could have set back the space race by decades.

@mr.yuk4858

Жыл бұрын

@A Volpe Yeah but that would take some time.

@mr.yuk4858

Жыл бұрын

@A Volpe I think the inspiration wouldn't have been there.

@mirroredvoid8394

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.yuk4858 I'm sure there would be a lot inspiration among german scientist after the CIA straps them onto a creativity chair.

@mr.yuk4858

Жыл бұрын

@@mirroredvoid8394 True. They would've done that too.

@stainlesssteelfox1

Жыл бұрын

A couple of years at most, and that's if they destoyed all the plans and equipment. The science was well known, it was the practical engineering that the Germans had, as well as a supply of left over parts. They were used because it was faster and cheaper, not because it was vital.

"Fly by wire"! Interesting!

"No longer a a weapon of war .. High altitude research.." yeah sure uncle Sam, we know your intrinsically benevolent

Impressive look at technology.

German Technology at it's best!!

There's more lead in asbestos in this film than in most houses today

All that equipment was developed by the Germans. I can imagine the scramble after the war to obtain as much of that equipment as they could find before any other of the Allies found them. I saw one of these in the Deutches Museum in Munich when I was stationed at Augsburg in the 1980s... They were truly remarkable accomplishments for their day.

@Mike44460

Жыл бұрын

If the Germans had these and the V1 two years earlier than they did it would of been a completely different war.

@andysolution62

Жыл бұрын

in the 1980s in this museum was an other "big toy": the fantastic DO 335...

@kl0wnkiller912

Жыл бұрын

@@andysolution62 Yes I saw that one too. It was an amazing thing to stand next to. I think it is the same one now in the Smithsonian.

@rsprockets7846

Жыл бұрын

@@Mike44460 ETs gave Hitler the heads up in the 30s

Do you guys have anything on the horten 229?

Sadly Professor Robert H Goddard 10 5 1882 to 8 10 45.did not get to observe witness these proceedings...

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

he got to see parts of a V2 before he died there's a photo of him looking at the exhaust cone with his mouth agape!!

>

19:05 Here from the launch of Artemis I

I wonder if there is a video of the one that got away and landed in Mexico.

I want a video of how flat sheet metal shaped to become an aircraft

@centeguahan3760

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to break It to ya bud, but this channel features old archived films, most never seen by the public. Basically, not "made to order" If special requests is what you wish to see, especially in the making/building of things, I'd highly suggest going over to the *_"History Channel"_* & search under their Playlist titled _"HowItsMade"_ one of favorites from them actually. Or simply just click here!👉🏾 _"__#HowItsMade__"_ Forgot I had that link in my pocket incase someone needed it😄Hope all this helps! Happy searching! 😊

@jiero7918

Жыл бұрын

@@centeguahan3760 thank you very much for the information

@jjmanic8783

Жыл бұрын

Here you go... kzread.info/dash/bejne/lXyhlY-lpZbLYrQ.html Custom sheet metal production from a flat sheet... This guy does car bodies, and BEAUTIFUL work... but the concepts are the same for making aeronautical body parts.

Weird. I didn't see Wernher von Braun once in this video.

@paulofelipebbraga9634

17 күн бұрын

He was at the local shop looking to buy a PAPER CLIP.

I see they were careful not to draw attention to the swastika-shaped pyrotechnic starter.

the year of release: mcmxl-V2

This is a repost, right? I am sure that I have seen this before. Just not sure if it was on this channel, but I think it was....

Ohne diesen Wissensdiebstahl wären die USA heute noch nicht im All😂🤣

Look at all those Germans showing how.

other country: develops new weapon. US military: it would be a shame, if someone was to tactically acquire that...

@erickrobertson7089

Жыл бұрын

Such as the Soviets?

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

moscow was 20 times worse scumbag!!!

@user-ve7hn2dh8h

Жыл бұрын

Uhm we, we, we gotta do some altitude research with it, that's also why we brought those hundreds of nazi scientists over here.. We retrained them to do altitude research👀

@user-ve7hn2dh8h

Жыл бұрын

@@erickrobertson7089 the soviets were more advanced and did most of their rocket research themselves

@erickrobertson7089

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ve7hn2dh8h I think that is wrong. The Soviets, through mass kidnapping (Operation Osoaviakhim) in Oct. of 46' transported up to 2,500 German experts to Russia. A total of more than 6,000 when you consider entire families were taken. This was a secret one night operation whereas Operation Paperclip was public knowledge. Despite what most people may think, I hold the opinion that the USSR being ahead of the West is generally overstated. Some exceptions sure. The only thing the Soviets excelled at was misery... Did you know that R504 (Kolyma Highway) was built between 1932 and 1953 and alongside its shoulders and under its bed lie the bones of between 250,000 and as many as 1,000,000 prison laborers? Its known as the Road of Bones. In 1957 there was a nuclear accident so severe that it was easier to close off nearly 70 square miles from all human activity and call it a nature preserve, denying any accident ever occurred. Ecological disasters, forced labor, human misery, secret police and monolithic rule.... that is what the USSR excelled at. By the way, those German scientists brought to the United States were often given awards for their achievements and as in the case of Von Braun, given citizenship. They became Americans. The Germans working the the USSR were under orders not to disclose anything, ever. They were, however, given better jobs and more commodious housing in East Germany at the end of their time in the Soviet Union, sometime in the late 1950's. Read the Gulag Archepeligo.

One of those babies went off course and landed south of the border outside of Ciudad Juarez. Fortunately no one or anything was hurt except some U.S. military pride.

@jaminova_1969

Жыл бұрын

Juarez? We should take another shot, that place is a cartel stronghold!

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

@@jaminova_1969 yeah nuclear tipped this time!!

@swingrfd

Жыл бұрын

You MAGAs are so predictable 🙄.

@markdoldon8852

Жыл бұрын

That rocket was later found to be an R7, a US built derivative rather than a German built V2.

@swingrfd

Жыл бұрын

@@markdoldon8852 Thanks for that info.

Those were the early trials of drone delivery, sponsored by Woolworth's and Ben Franklin's.

German's were and still are a great culture.

@laserbeam002

Жыл бұрын

During WW2 they were a bunch of A**holes. Especially Hitler and his bunch.

@rounimohad6125

Жыл бұрын

W.von.Braun......!

@curtislowe4577

9 ай бұрын

Not really. The Germans have been a thorn in the side of civilization on three occasions. They largely resisted Pax Romana to retain their primitive, tribal ways. Everyone knows about der Kaiser und der Fuhrer.

@nistaffsubs6787

5 ай бұрын

Everything was destroyed in that time ...

@garyfrancis6193

Ай бұрын

Like sauerkraut?

Sounds like NBC’s Ben Grauer speaking.

United States workers completing rockets that once were assembled by slave labor. Weird. Thanks for posting!

So that's what V2 is for...

My understanding, contrary to the narrator, was that the Germans fuelled their V2 with 80:20 alcohol/water mixture + liquid O2 as oxidiser, otherwise it burnt too hot & fried the combustion chamber somewhat. Maybe the Yanks improved the combustion chamber's thermal stability ??

"But his bosses didn't like him so they shot him inta spaaa-aaace!..."

Thanx for the great video. I do wish that PeriscopeFilms wouldn't put the timecode on the video.

@PeriscopeFilm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a sub. Now -- here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZread users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

they have to for legal reasons!

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

@@PeriscopeFilm could you do it a tad smaller and possibly a bit lower though? sometimes it messes up charts being shown and original subtitles!

@paulwarner5395

Жыл бұрын

@@PeriscopeFilm Thankyou for your replay. I understand now.

It took a lot of effort to launch a rocket back then.

@michaeloneil2379

Жыл бұрын

And today? I give you Artemis 1. Fuel leaks, cooling systems, rain lightening! Unlimited budget, hold my beer.

@mydogbrian4814

Жыл бұрын

@Evan Hodge it took a lot but less than half that to reach the moon.

Naza after all.

Wondering how many people after seeing this are looking to buy some hydrogen peroxide and sodium permangenate to try out in their bathtub or backyard... 🥺

what an absolutely disgusting use for perfectly good moonshine!!!

If the Germans hadn’t been so blinkered at the strengths and advancements of some of their tech the war may well have dragged on longer totally different. They would have had no qualms about indiscriminate use of a nuclear weapon in their attempt to win on London, Moscow etc.

@erickrobertson7089

Жыл бұрын

If they had the benefit of the technology of late 44' in 41' or 42' or if, as some members of the Reich wished, to start the war in 45' instead of 39' the numbers of men under arms and military strength would have made their advance irresistible. They lost battles repeatedly and the war eventually entirely due to Hitler. Without Hitler of course war may have never occurred but with him as the ultimate maximum leader on all things military and war production wise, well, we should be grateful for his glorious incompetence.

@scottpeterson5241

Жыл бұрын

You should watch “Man In The High Castle.”

@christophstrokosch1992

Жыл бұрын

Probably you are right. But at the end of the day i'm asking myself how many nuclear explosions were done by the Germans and how many by the USA since Hiroshima?

@hoppinggnomethe4154

Жыл бұрын

@@scottpeterson5241 that series is BS

@JDAbelRN

Жыл бұрын

@@christophstrokosch1992 what are you inferring by your comment?

Heinz! Werner!!! Stay out of the damn frame!

Perhaps it was a V2 that crashed at Roswell in 1947.

Where's Wernher?

@mshotz1

Жыл бұрын

They kept him off camera. I have a feeling the civilians you saw were part of the German crew.

@swingrfd

Жыл бұрын

Still at Fort Bliss training American personnel.

Funny ai you know That w.von brain and dornberger decided to Be at the aiming point safe place prosit yunis

The comments on this video… 🤦‍♂️

@danielcruz8347

Жыл бұрын

LOL

This is where the American space program began. The public was not much interested until Sputnik was put in orbit by the Russians in October, 1957. Then they went into shock. What if the Russians put an atomic bomb on one of their rockets? I was in 2nd grade when Sputnik was launched.

Один русский генерал: "Залили в ракету 4 тонны спирта и получили воронку на дальности 200 км... Дайте этот спирт мне, и я на этом расстоянии возьму город..." One Russian general: "They poured 4 tons of alcohol into a rocket and got a funnel at a distance of 200 km ... Give me this alcohol, and I will take the city at this distance ..."

18:57 NO SMOKING Ya think?

The site commandant wasn't even a bird colonel????

@erickrobertson7089

Жыл бұрын

I think it was still the Army Air Force in 1947.

I feel like I just watched portions of 6 or 7 MST3K episodes

"I aim for the stars but quite frequently I hit London."- Werner Von Braun, 1944.

@jaminova_1969

Жыл бұрын

I did "not see" the movie by the same name! lolz

@xr6lad

Жыл бұрын

Werner was a true autocrat. He didn’t care who was in charge. He would toe any line. And serve any government. As long as they funded his research. He would have worked equally for Japan China Russia as he did for America.

@DL-ls5sy

Жыл бұрын

and Anvers too (Antwerpen) 567 dead in a Kino in 1944. well done !

@sciencedavedunning3415

Жыл бұрын

@@xr6lad Von Braun was forced to work for the Nazis , as was Werner Hiesenburg forced to work on the Nazi's atom bomb project. Both of these unsung heroes risked their lives to sabotage thier own efforts without being discovered.

"cosmic research" sure, sure.

Sounds expensive and complicated to me.

So is this where the expression came about: " it ain't rocket science"?

@joesiklosi5000

Жыл бұрын

@Evan Hodge Just check out that peanut butter factory in Georgia. Who is controlling the roach population? Ask their local congressman.

So no parachutes

@erintyres3609

Жыл бұрын

The rocket is streamlined, has no heat shield, weighs several tons, and is falling from 100 miles up. Sorry, there is no way to make a parachute that would handle the entire rocket.

Se é um projeto alemão pq que. que o vídeo está todo em inglês? If it's a German project, why? that the video is all in english? Why?🤔🤔

não sei ingles.

All that know how and someone couldn't come up with a parachute recovery system, gee whiz Batman.

Imagine Washington was hit by several of these missiles killing hundreds. Two years later Britain, your besty, starts a rocket program headed by the mastermind behind these weapons. Do you think you'd be a little irked?

Hitler was so crazy!

"Four tons of grain alcohol" He said, but what proof? xD

@dont-want-no-wrench

Жыл бұрын

four tons minus a couple of fifths

You forgot so I do this for you : special thanks to the former Nazi scientist Wernher Von Braun and his crew !

Where would be if not for nazi scientists? it’s crazy that the government gave them jobs

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

oh most weren't really nazi's there came a point where to have a govt job you had to join the party no matter what!! like today if you want to be a cop or firefighter you have to join the union if you want to or not!!!!

@underoverrated2959

Жыл бұрын

@@keithmoore5306 if you’re a member of the SS you are a Nazi

@mr.yuk4858

Жыл бұрын

Where else were they going to go? The war was over. The Soviet Union captured their German scientists. The race was on.The U.S. was desperate to develop ICBM's. Let's face it. It was never about space exploration. All the technology today was created by war or the threat of war. It's human nature to destroy themselves.

@underoverrated2959

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.yuk4858 the ground

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.yuk4858 no the US wasn't desperate! just because they got sputnik up a few months before Atlas was tested doesn't mean they were that far ahead just they got one up successfully first! the air force was putting 7 times the money into bomber programs as it was in all of the missile programs! the US decided that the proven delivery system got priority over the one in it's infancy! but in reality we were neck and neck in systems that worked but the Atlas outclassed the R4 big time! the R 4 took a crew of over a 150 and 24 hours to fuel and prep for launch the Atlas took a crew of 2 and 15 minutes the R4 pushed a 3.7 ton 3.2 megaton warhead for 5400 nautical miles with an accuracy of about 7 miles whereas the Atlas pushed a 2,3 ton 5,7 megaton warhead up to 11.500 nautical with an accuracy of 500 feet!! wwe went for a complete operational system moscow went to it worked once build it and fix the problems later!! if anything moscow was the desperate ones!!

Explain how a government produced film is owned by a private company. This is public domain.

You can see exactly why rocketry didn’t matter until Sputnik. Besides a very competitive long range bomber force looking for a monopoly in arms deliverance you had politicians and generals eyeing at how much money this all must have cost. All the resources that had to be poured in to launch what was thought to be only one bomb when a B29 could deliver many bombs. It was only until Sputnik did the general public realize the true value of rocketry. A satellite spying at us unmolested. Even in the 50s planes where still the go to for military operations. The U2 incident finally settled the debate and the race was on. Both rocketry and planes could be properly funded.

@dont-want-no-wrench

Жыл бұрын

what really freaked them out was the fact that if you could orbit a sputnik you could a nuke

@CNe7532294

Жыл бұрын

@@dont-want-no-wrench No doubt. There was also other factors as well. By far the "goofiest" nuclear aircraft (still lovable imho though) is the B-36. By that time, the roles reversed to the point where missiles weren't Gucci enough anymore. The B-36 won the most expensive to maintain and operate weapons delivery system in the eyes of politicians of both Congress and uniform. In comparison, changing out so many spark plugs amongst other aircraft maintenance made this video look like child's play. More was to come when SLBMs were invented and then finally MIRVs (essentially multiple nuclear warheads in one missile that could independently disperse to different targets). Today I believe missiles and even spacecraft are only getting more and more cheaper. As you don't need to constantly use fuel to keep them in a "type of orbit". Its so cheap that even private companies are jumping in on the fun and I don't mean just SpaceX either.

Send this to the new nasa guys trying to launch artemis. The wrong stuff.

Wernher von Braun.is the Greatest triator....ever.

I did not know this thing ran on moonshine!

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

yeah an absolutely disgusting use for perfectly good drink!!!

@sciencedavedunning3415

Жыл бұрын

Alcohol has a higher energy density per unit weight than hydrogen does. I don't think anyone was ready to handle liquid hydrogen at the time, anyway.

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

@@sciencedavedunning3415 liquid hydrogen shouldn't have any more difficult than liquid oxygen to handle!!

@sciencedavedunning3415

Жыл бұрын

@@keithmoore5306 I'm no expert, but I think it takes more energy to compress hydrogen to liquid state than oxygen........ and I'm certain hydrogen leaks easier than oxygen....... If someone knows better, ....... I'm willing to stand corrected

@keithmoore5306

Жыл бұрын

@@sciencedavedunning3415 i was referring to using it as a fuel not producing it but if memory serves hydrogen was liquified before oxygen was and there is more than one way to liquify a gas!

I'm comparing to India till 1947

Algorithm.

Is amazing how the americans do not manage (after two years from the end of ww2) to guide the rocket in a straight line. The germans did it few years before :) .

@erintyres3609

Жыл бұрын

In Chuck Yeager's autobiography, he wrote that the first heat seeking missiles flew "straight towards the sun."

@535phobos

5 ай бұрын

It probably was flying straight. The zig-zaging of the trrail comes from differnt winds in different altitudes.

Yo, Nazi-Engineer's "know how"

Two years after the war and the US is still assembling V2 rockets from captured German parts. Not too impresive. And the US techs and their German advisors hadn't yet added a parachute. Also not impressive.

America during World War 2 had no bombs or rocket attacks to endure. The Blitz was awful and the V1 Doodlebugs were terrifying. The poorest people suffered most in the East end of London.

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218

Жыл бұрын

More v1 bombs landed on Antwerp than London.

@neilpiper9889

Жыл бұрын

@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 I didn't know that