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Aggregat A4 - The V-2 - cover

Aggregat A4 - The V-2

Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf

Publisher: R.E.I. Editions

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Summary

The V-2 missile was the precursor to ballistic missiles and was widely used by Germany during the latter stages of World War II, particularly against Great Britain and Belgium.

	The acronym V-2 stands for Vergeltungswaffe 2, (retaliatory weapon 2 in German, an idea of ​​Joseph Goebbels for propaganda purposes).

The missile was designated by its designers as A4 (Aggregat 4): as early as 1927, members of the German Society began the first tests on liquid-fueled rockets.
In 1932, the Reichswehr (German National Defense) became interested in the development of these tests especially for the military sector, and a team led by General Walter Dornberger was very impressed by the test of a launcher designed and built by Wernher von Braun.

	The A-4/V-2 missile was uninterceptable.
	A weapon against which there was no defense.

To date, only a deployment of Patriots or SA-10s could parry an attack, and at enormous cost, against what was an ancestor of the current Scuds, similar in performance and warhead but more precise and half the weight.


 
Available since: 01/30/2025.
Print length: 96 pages.

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