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Vergeltungswaffe (German for "retaliation weapon", "reprisal weapon" or "vengeance weapon") was a term assigned during World War II by the Nazis to a number of revolutionary superweapons, the V1 flying bomb, the V2 rocket and the V3 long range gun. A superweapon is an extremely powerful weapon by the standards of its time and its scale. ...
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The Vergeltungswaffen (or V-Waffen for short) were named by Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry. The name was chosen with regard to the allied bombing of German cities, which by 1944 the conventional German air force could neither prevent nor answer in kind. Also the name was chosen in response to the British 'V for victory' campaign. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ...
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The V-1 was a cruise missile (the first) powered by a pulse jet. They were fired on London and Antwerp during the latter part of the Second World War. Londoners nicknamed the V1 "Doodlebugs" or "buzz bombs". The Fieseler Fi 103/FZG-76 (Vergeltungswaffe-1, V-1), known as the Flying bomb, Buzz bomb or Doodlebug, was the first guided missile used in war and the forerunner of todays cruise missile. ...
A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ...
A pulse jet engine is a very simple form of internal combustion engine wherein the combustion occurs in pulses and the propulsive effort is a reaction to the rearward flow of hot gasses. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal (Cathedral of our Lady) at the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to several triptychs by Baroque painter Rubens. ...
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Main article: V-2 rocket The development of the liquid-fueled spin-stabilized sub-orbital rocket lead to the development of the most famous of the V-Weapons, the V-2 rocket. The V-2 was a result of the Aggregate projects, and as such was known to the Germans as the A4. The A4 (Aggregat 4) alias V-2 rocket or Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Reprisal weapon 2) was an early ballistic missile used by the German Army against mostly Belgian and British targets during the later stages of World War II. The V2 rocket became the first man-made object launched into space...
The A4 (Aggregat 4) alias V-2 rocket or Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Reprisal weapon 2) was an early ballistic missile used by the German Army against mostly Belgian and British targets during the later stages of World War II. The V2 rocket became the first man-made object launched into space...
The Aggregate series was a set of rocket designs developed in 1933–1945 by a research program of Nazi Germanys army. ...
A larger version of the V2/A4 was the A10. This version was only on the drawing board and never actually made it to production as there were heat transfer problems which hampered the project. Had it reached fruition it would have been the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, being able to reach New York from Berlin. In thermal science, heat transfer is the passage of thermal energy from a hot to a cold body. ...
A Minuteman III missile soars after a test launch. ...
Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
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Main article: V-3 cannon The V3 was a giant cannon, designed to lob shells from its site in the Pas de Calais, France across the English Channel and hit London. Because of its target, it was also known as the "London gun". It consisted of three shafts each containing five, 500 foot long, barrels, side by side. Armoured doors in the concrete were designed to slide back when the guns were ready. Like the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, V-3 cannon was one of the three vengeance weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffe) built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Unlike the V-1 and the V-2, however, the V-3 was not a guided missile, but a...
Like the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, V-3 cannon was one of the three vengeance weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffe) built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Unlike the V-1 and the V-2, however, the V-3 was not a guided missile, but a...
Pas-de-Calais is a département in northern France named after the strait which it borders. ...
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche (IPA: ), the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
British Intelligence first received reports of the V3 in the summer of 1943, when it was under construction below a 20-foot thick slab of ferro-concrete near Mimoyecques. Reports indicated that if the guns could keep up their maximum rate of fire, they could bombard London with 600 tons of explosives a day; in a fortnight, London would receive as much high explosive as Berlin had received in the whole war. Mimoyecques was a German fortification in Europe during World war 2,consisting mainly of large cement bunkers, mainly built for testing of the newly built jet propelled aircraft and small versions of the v-2 rocket. ...
Before it became operational, the V3 was destroyed by the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron - better known as The Dam Busters. On 6 July 1944, specially modified Avro Lancaster bombers dropped several 5 ton (5.4 tonne) Tallboy bombs (designed by British inventor, Barnes Wallis) on the V3 complex. One Tallboy ripped a corner off the 20-foot thick concrete roof and completely blocked one of the gun shafts. A near miss collapsed another shaft and made the third shaft unfit to use. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
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The term The Dam Busters, when used by itself, can refer to: Operation Chastise, 617 Squadrons attack on German dams in World War II The 1951 book, The Dam Busters (book) by Paul Brickhill. ...
July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ...
The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine World War II bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). ...
Tallboy bomb The Tallboy was an Earth Quake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. ...
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDI, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979) was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. ...
Like the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, V-3 cannon was one of the three vengeance weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffe) built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Unlike the V-1 and the V-2, however, the V-3 was not a guided missile, but a...
V-Weapons effect Intended to turn the war back in Germany's favour, the accuracy and hence the military effectiveness of the V weapons was low. They did, however, have an important psychological effect both in Germany and in the countries attacked with them.
Historians have since suggested that the huge amount of time and money expended upon the V weapon programs at Hitler's insistence, approximately equivalent to the cost of the allies' Manhattan Project, actually contributed to the quicker defeat of Nazi Germany by diverting limited resources away from conventional forces.[citation needed] The Manhattan Project resulted in the development of the first nuclear weapons, and the first-ever nuclear detonation, at the Trinity test of July 16, 1945. ...
Hitler thought that the V-weapons would turn the tide of the war. Following the devastation of London, V-1 had to face anti-aircraft guns at the south coast of England and the RAF fighters. After D-day, many launch sites were overrun. RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India RaÄunarski Fakultet RAF...
Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ...
But the V-2 gave more hope, targeting Paris, London and Holland. The last V-2 was flown on March 28, 1945: by this time continued air raids had destroyed fuel supplies. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Île-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. ...
March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ...
1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...
See also The Amerika Bomber project was an initiative of the German Air Ministry to obtain a long-range bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany. ...
Terror bombing is a strategy of deliberately bombing civilian targets and strafing civilians in order to break the morale of the enemy and make the civilian population of the enemy panic. ...
Wunderwaffen is German for wonder weapon, and was a term assigned during World War II by the Nazi propaganda ministry to a few revolutionary superweapons. Some of the wunderwaffen have been incorrectly associated with the Vergeltungswaffen. ...
The Aggregate series was a set of rocket designs developed in 1933–1945 by a research program of Nazi Germanys army. ...
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