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Megaroc: The British manned space program that almost was
As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet ...
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These Amateur Archaeologists Dig Up the Buzz Bombs That Fell on England in WW2
which displays a captured V-1 flying bomb as well as a V-2 rocket. (The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. also has both weapons on display.) The V-1 was guided by a simple ...
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Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket
The assembled rocket wears the black-and-white paint used on test missiles at Peenemünde instead of the camouflage colors used when the V-2 was deployed on mobile launchers. Museum officials in ...
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V Weapons
By 1942 they had successfully test-launched a flying bomb (the V-1) and a supersonic missile (the V-2). Hitler believed these ‘vengeance’ weapons would win him the war. Aerial intelligence ...