Project Backfire, 1945
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2015
- Project Backfire was conducted by the British military in the months following the end of World War II as a demonstration of the tactical capabilities of the V-2 missile. This footage is taken from the rocket.aero DVD "The V-2 in America."
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What an amazing contemporary document. As a german, i learned a lot from this. The Brits did a great job making this precise dokumentation. Thx for uploading. Hope there is more like this.
most of the scientists who developed the v2 went to the usa & were not sharing. The brits realised that people with experience of using the system were still valuable. these are the people who helped in project backfire.
They stole everything from germans
An excellent documentary, written and presented in a way that makes it easy to follow through the logistics and operational aspects of this astounding example (the A4) of science and engineering.
I have worked in aerospace for 35 years. This makes complete sense. This is what we do for our rockets and airplanes. You have to think about and practice every step of the process.
behind this complicate, but effective, procedure there were nearly ten years of intensive research at Peeneemunde and previously a large theoretical work by Von Braun himself- his Doktorarbeit thesis in 1934 was about the mathematical Physics of combustion chambers-. It would have been impossible for British or USA scientists to replicate such a work in only one year
Fascinating! This long procedure took place while roving ground attack aircraft were strafing railroads and any other installations they could find.
Thank you for uploading this magnificent documentation.
Wow, what an amazing record. Never seen this before, thank you so much for uploading it.
Amazingly condensed detail-- Thank you for posting this.
I love the final statement; "We've got a lot to think about "
It was no joke to the people of England but Hitler wasted a lot of resources that would have helped more in other places. With more time though this technology would have paid off. Its a good thing he ran out of time. Thankyou for this interesting documentary.
Germany was defeated with conventional weapons. If they focused on them they would have lasted longer, we were able to out produce them with conventional weapons and also built super weapons that saved many allied lives in the pacific. If all of the German super weapon efforts went into nuclear technology the world might be a very different place. If the resources that went into the v2, the me262, the v3, the super tiger, and the gustov gun went into nukes and conventional weapons it would have been a whole different result.
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The shape of that igniter, is quite telling!
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If anyone is still in doubt how a rocket works and how it's deployed after watching this, then I can't tell you. Briliant information film as always from that era.
From one of the pilots hunting them above the trees, "They went up like telegraph poles"
Absolutely fascinating, I had no idea a film like this existed, thanks.
Amazing documentary, never realised that much effort was taken event for transportation. or details of technicality inside the rocket. what a rocket! true ancestor of all modern rockets.
it was even more complex than shown - the control system with the gyros included a primitive computer mostly analog.
Germans managed to fire most of V2s from tiny suburb in Netherlands. Only 1 being claimed being intercepted in launching site. Thou many V2s were destroyed in Allied massive air attacks on German railroad network.
There wasnt catapults, no permanent structures. Germans just decided the launching site. Drove there. Set it up. Fired several rockets. And were gone few hours later.
Immagine the Awe in people's eyes at seeing one of these things being launched 80 years ago People were amazed at the technological masterpiece
They also got to ride in luxurious multi deck blimps. We get the Good Year...
My mother have see them, The Netherlands. just as other that era rockets red glair?
@@IdleByte like um the Hindenberg?
Read up.. multi decked ?
I'm in awe now, unbelievably clever/ingenious.
civilians were more in constant fear of potential RAF and USAAF air strikes against the launch sites, and Gestapo and SS raids arresting them and sending them to the camps...
That was if they weren't thinking of the lack of food brought on by the German high command's decision to stop all food shipments to the western Netherlands in order to starve the unruly Dutch population into submission.
Thanks, I hadn't realised the launch sequence was so lengthy.
what a wonderful video.....thank you so much, Paul in Central Florida, USA about 30 miles due west of Cape Canaveral
Awesome, thanks a lot this was really good video and audio quality, never seen a reporting like it before, for sure not from the British side, and directly on side of the captured V2 Rocket facilities.
The gyros being explained really cleared up some questions, it makes complete sense. Turbo pumps made it possable for that puppy to really get some thrust. Von Braun really had the right stuff back then. His technology is still being used.
He is another sin in America's past. Thousands more people died at the factory the rockets were manufactured than were killed by the payload. He sure had the murderous stuff alright.
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But he wasn't that one that invented that turbo pump, and he also did not solve the mathematics for liquid fueled rockets. Ofc, he was a brilliant mind, his work based on other brilliant minds. Moore, Ziolkovski and the german manufacture who invented a turbo pump (not for rockets).
@@minirock000you're right! The U.S. should have paid Von Braun's moving expenses to Moscow where this terrible ex-Nazi could've used his unique talent and vision to help another evil regime take the lead in the space race and the development of ICBM's. By the way, what do you think you would have done if you had been a talented young scientist who happened to have been born in Germany and grown up under Nazi rule? You would have worked for the Nazis, that's what you would've done because as you well know if you didn't the prospects of your life continuing would have been seriously hampered.
@@minirock000 All would have been better if germany won the war.
Absolutely incredible! Thanks!
Amazing what they produced with slide-rules!
Don't forget computers invented by human brains.
@@flybobbie1449 Yeah, and don’t forget where the term “computer” comes from in the first place - teams of people doing lots and lots of arithmetic. That is, the people, often women, were the “computers”, quite literally. Their methods weren’t all that different from ours - we’ve simply made tools (e.g., digital computers) to make the required processes more efficient.
@@a1nelson Yes, and according to Hollywood, most were sassy black women.
@@JohnJones-oy3md Named Lakesha.
Wow. Very informative.
So much manpower and time to launch one rocket; I was unaware of..
Thanks for a great upload
Not very efficient and taking up huge ressources it probably caused Germany to lose the war a lot sooner.
Many of them were there because they were reenacting a wartime launch from a temporary site. The Americans would have been able to get by with fewer men from their permanent site at White Sands.
And then how much more war it takes and destruction to go on top of that to stop all that and say that little bit could be used to buy drugs for biden .
Roger that! All this complicated work and the training they had to go through and you get one inaccurate bang ! Whew! They got us to the moon though!
Wow, this is an incredibly detailed field guide for assembling your own B2.
V2 not B2 and it didn't include the engineering to assemble the engine. and glossed over the control system.
B is next to V so give him a break lol
Fascinating details about the rocket. Leave it to the Brits to give us a matter-of-fact explanation with no nonsense. All those rounded-up German crewmen sucking away on their American cigarettes. They were probably starved for smokes by the final surrender. If only some of them were still alive today to comment on this film.
Better sucking on american cigarettes than slave out in sibyria in minus 20 degrees with nearly no food i would think
All that incredible (for its time) technology, material, manufacturing, & manpower - all that for the sole purpose of self-destruction in an explosion designed specifically to violently end the lives of as many fellow human beings as possible. War is indeed hell.
I wonder how many people have died to get to that stage of research and development of the process.
@@UNKN0WN_1 I heard from a fairly credible source that more were killed in manufacturing (by slave labor) than were killed in England. Regardless of the exact numbers, conditions during manufacturing were horrendous, and represent a crime unto themselves. What a waste.
@@UNKN0WN_1 Only now found this video. Actually, the A4 is afaik the only weapon ever developed, which cost more lives (~20k) in its development than in its usage.
@@Oliplaysdota crazy...
@@Oliplaysdota there were many such, but only if you count such weapons systems that were developed but never deployed operationally because of the high rate of accidents during testing.
Those men were extremely well-fed and cared for in the last stage of the war.
And for years thereafter.
This launch was performed six months after the war. No doubt, the German technicians were offered British Army rations for several weeks in return for their cooperation.
Excellent video! Had no idea there so very many steps.
The rocket that could have reached the USA was reported in an article in Popular Science around 1950. For the pilot, it was a one way trip to a point where he could parachute into the USA and function as an espionage agent.
I'd like to know how he would safely eject while moving 4000 miles an hour!
Wow! Great video. Thanks for sharing this.
The V 1s were a lot more destructive than history books give them credit for, most books imply it was just more of a nuisance than anything, but the statistics you provided shows a lot of destruction and casualties incurred from this rather simple flying bomb.
Because of the steepness and speed of the fall of a V2 from height, it was inclined to bury its warhead into the ground, reducing the radius of the blast. The V1 on the other hand tended to explode closer to the surface, resulting in a wider destructive blast.
On top of the death and destruction they caused, the Buzz Bombs were also employed as a terror weapon intended to create fear and damage the morale of British citizens, and they were somewhat effective at this. Not effective enough to completely break public morale and alter the course of the war, but they were certainly loathed and feared for some time before tactics were developed to counter them.
BTW, the real KEY technology to rocket flight was that pump he baaaaarrreeely mentioned.
Unbelievable how much time and effort they put into a futile effort! We owe them for our space program, because we were in the tinker toy stages when they were launching these monsters.
why was it a futile effort?
Because it was all over. However that tosser Hitler was in denial and not firing on all cylinders?
It did not prove a war-winning weapon for them, as intended, as hoped for . . . @@MsVanorak
@@EllieMaes-Grandadok - but it was the basis for apollo missions etc
The individuals involved in time made a contribution to that success, but the end does not justify the means. @@MsVanorak
As a former Pershing 1a crew member, this video is fascinating.
To think, this material was extremely top secret at the highest levels at the time.
They use open market parts, i remember someone found the sodium pump, and knew what it was. Enigma the same, my family's company owned one too, not the army version!
everyone found them, many failed, some landed complete without any damage.
Yeah...my neighbors hate it every time I launch one of these things.....so now I only do New Years and 4h of July...
@@sierramike5259 The London people are the next neighbors, that's why they did that here...
I giggle every time I use my smartphone camera. Spies & weapon researchers in the Cold War would have delivered their first born for the kind of miniaturized tech we routinely take for granted.
@@MM22966 for real!
great thank u for the upload
It's amazing how much similarity there was from this to the space shuttle. For example the paper cups put over the oxygen vains that fell off from the blast. Also, the Germans used a similar, but smaller VAB to build the rockets.
No it is not amazing. Paper cups are used in all kinds of industrial processes for a century to protect nozzles, pipes, parts, and fittings. There is no similarity to the space shuttle. That is why only by reaching were you able to find two so called "similarity". You are wrong.
OK, professor you win. @@rfarevalo
You're not entirely wrong, in that the V2/A4 was the first liquid-fueled bipropellant rocket able to actually lift a useful payload to very high altitudes, so there's a direct lineage from STS all the way back to the development work that was done by the Nazis at Peenemunde. However, that lineage really only applies in terms of "basic" stuff like injector/combustion chamber/nozzle design, turbopump development, propellant chemistry, mechanical engineering and construction techniques. Advances in fields like engine design and manufacturing, materials science, digital flight control/guidance systems, life support systems, and ground handling operations which were necessary to enable Shuttle to do what it did would have absolutely blown the minds of Von Braun and his team!
Ein sehr guter Beitrag zur Aufklärung. Es zeigt auch auf wie die USA und sein verbündeten Analyse betrieben und es zu ihren gunsten nutzten.
Danke
I own one of those gyro motors, they are surprisingly small for their time.
Superb and fascinating thankyou.
Dear God! The amount of time, effort and resources dedicated to lUnching just one was enormous! No wonder they lost the war! Imagine if this time and money were spent on building aircraft and tanks!
However, the team led by von Braun did put men on the moon. For the Americans.
Did you know that Germany (in early 1945) even had a very rare Skoda Version of the A4 with so called "Feststoffantrieb" (solid fuel propellant) that eleminated the tanking procedure, those rare rockets could be stored and transported ready for fire...
seriously ? that is news to me ! like another comment here I know about the A4/V2 but this film really helps to put into perspective the amount of effort that they put into killing people...all this..just to sow chaos fear and death. Absolutely ingenious people I dread to think what else the NAZI's would have cooked up if the war went on for 5 more years...
@@psycronizer Yes the man behind that was Dr. Bödewadt and Dr. Teichmann of Skoda Waffenunion located in Pribram (German occupied Czechia) and Dr. Rolf Engel.
There are more vergeldungs waffens, many did design, V2 was the original orbital only!
Were they @ solid propellant V2 or are you thinking of some of the other rockets like Wasserfall or Schmeterlinge?
No a small series of V2 solid fuel rockets with Dr. Teichmanns/ Dr. Bödewadts system@@peppertrout
The amount of men used, to fire just 1 rocket, is amazing.
Combined with multiple hazardous situations, every time.
Like transporting fuel, and warheads.
An interesting fact is that the Germans fired more V2s at Antwerp, than any other place.
What was crazy was that the effort put in these rockets did nothing to defeat the allies.
But kept Hitler from more effective weapon manufacture.
@@howardsimpson489 well he did want the A-10. an intercontinental version.
I thought is was cool that the initial ignition only yielded 8 tons of thrust on the 12 ton rocket, until they spooled up the turbines (pumps) to 25 tons and off it went.
OMG this tehnological masterpiece
Fantastic video
Such a labour intensive process!!
They had a lot of free labour
You should see how much labor goes into fixing/ repairing a tuna tube can “ us submarine “ Fhak the nazi navy !!!
Having TWO trucks when ONE was adequate
very interesting. Thank you
Amazing and so complicated. The Germans sure had their "Shit Togsther"
I love the look of the V-2 Rocket.
Its cartoon shape :-)
Many Hollywood Sci fi movies made in the 50's and 60's used some of these films made of the V2 in their story line. You will see a V2's taking off or landing, pretending they are man carrying rockets.
Thanks!
It was a common mistake to believe the engine produced 8 tons of thrust during the preliminary stage of the ignition sequence, where the engine is fed by gravity alone. During the preliminary stage, the engine produced about 1 or 2 tons of thrust. The 8 tons of thrust were produced towards the end of powered flight, where the thrust was reduced from 25 to 8 tons in order to fine tune the trajectory.
That would not explain how 2 tons of thrust could propel 12 tons of mass vertically from standstill.
It can't. That's why during the preliminary stage of the ignition sequence the rocket doesn't move. The rocket moves when the engine's thrust overcomes the weight of the rocket. That happens at the main stage of the ignition sequence, when the turbine starts and the engine produces 25 tons of thrust.@@blxtothis
How you reduce thrust from 28 tons to 8 tons when you say it never achieved 28 tons thrust?
I never said that. Did you actually read the entire comments? Do you understand what "ignition sequence" means?@@Jim_maco
My grandmother told me stories of these things hitting London during WW2, one hit down the end of the road to where I grew up......she said it totally wiped out two houses; and your talking about big solid houses.....killed alot of people...
One wiped out a convent in Bermondsey in March 1945, when people were going 'snowflake' over the Dresden bombing . . .
The major problem was that it impacted the ground at 3,000 mph - which caused the warhead to bury itself in the ground - forcing much of the explosive force to go vertical. It would have quite devastating as an air burst, but that wasn't possible at the time.
@jessepollard7132 Agreed.....an air burst would have been disastrous!
Take a look at the "hasty expedient" at 25:21. A wrench as a cable anchor.
Not so many years ago I visited the last V2 production site, DORA in a mountain at Kohnstein in the middle of Germany. In a former fuel deposit they made rockets to the very last, with prisoners from a nearby KZ Camp working to death in humid tunnels.
Superb. #OurHistory 🇬🇧🔥📚
Great video
Could also mention about accidents during fueling and launching.
However I didn't know that whole launch process shouldn't last longer than about 1 hour.
While the above was happening, over in the USA, ridicule of rockets was so bad that Von Karman, Malina, Parsons etc. had to call them "Jets." They'd see Goddard's career destroyed by loud disbelief (championed by the New York Times, who famously insisted that rocket engines have nothing to push against.)
If they hadn't called them "jets," any of their proposals would have been met with sneering an laughter. (What, give money to build Buck-Rogers fantasy space ships?! Are you going to use them to fly to the moon? ) So, the strap-on rockets invented for launching military aircraft were called JATO, for "Jet" -Assisted Take Off. They next founded a new company, JPL, "Jet" propulsion labs, which only worked on rocket engines. No jets.
In 1945, German use of V-2 rockets would have been surprising as if, say, Iraq had invaded neighboring countries using antigravity flying-saucers equipped with death-rays (plus an infantry composed of trained Bigfoots.) The universal target of sneering, those ridiculous fantasy Buck Rogers space ships, were raining down on London.
Even today it hasn't changed, and the only one who could privately build a private rocket company, has to be a visionary billionaire spending their own money. This could have happened in 1970. It was forty years before any little kid believing in private space flight could grow up and make enough money to break the logjam of disbelief. (So today we have the Billionaire Race To The Moon. Or is it Mars?)
- "The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space]...presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually
accomplished." -Sir R. Wooley, British astronomer, reviewing P.E. Cleator's "Rockets in Space", Nature, March 14, 1936
- "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." - New York Times 1921
Almost surprised they didn't think the earth was flat!
We have a similar mind set re vaccines.
Thanks xxx
A lot could go wrong in preparation, just one detail.
Wonder what the rate of catastrophic failure was.
not that high after the procedures were developed. One issue was the alcohol fuel - it was very flammable.
By a huge mistake a V2 rocket accidental chrased on a coast of sweden early in the war but it seems that the Allies did not get any information about it - but a V1 rocket landing on danish island Bornholm in early 1940-1941 , the local resistance movement managed to get lots of pictures before the germans sale the area off , these pictures was sent over to the british army and was used a lot in the growing flow of information originating from the Pennemunde test center which ended up with the bomber command sending the Lancasters to thrown bombs and destroying the plant and sending the rocket factory underground at Nordhausen and other places.
the company that built the "Meillerwagen" does still exist and is still family owned today
When you look carefully, the firing troops have their rank insignia and medals removed. This British operaration/demonstration was made with German prisoners of war, who could operate A4. Brits themselves could had only gawk the missile.
Does this film actually come from The V2 in America? I ask as it is not shown in the list of contents on your web site. If it is included I will order immediately. Rob
The first "fly by wire" was the A4! It wasn't used in airplanes for many decades.
There was no pilot for fly by wire in the A4.
Gotta have that cigarette . . . even when cranking the turntable around. Crank, crank, crank . . . ah, that sweet smoke . . . crank crank crank . . .
To launch 3,000 of these you would need to launch two a day for 1,500 days in a row. For those who think the payload wasn't that large, 3,000 times 1,700 lbs. Is over 4.5- million pounds of TNT. Outstanding, realy.
Roughly the same payload as a "thousand bomber night" by the Allies. For just the cost of fuel and bombs. V2s were inefficent weapons.
I use to pilot some of these. I tell you the launch did my back in every time. :)
You can see from the accuracy of the information how it has changed very little since those days, the fuels are virtually the same except for the Tischtof, which was highly volatile. It is said that German pilots flying the first rocket planes did not want to land before running out of fuel, as landing, could be the death of you, when the fuel exploded. Seeing the construction of the vehicle and transportation is almost the same, except on a larger scale.
It shows one classic thing the British excel in, failure to produce. With all this technology and information the British do not have a space agency or rocket sites. There are many other examples of British ingenuity being squandered by the government.
Yup -ignoring the Whittle jet plane was a big failure. The RAF could have had the first jet plane had they followed up as they were supposed to do.
Britain did have have a space program, we developed a rocket that put a satellite into orbit on its second attempt, and then the government cancelled the whole program. It's what we do, spend lots of money on projects and cancel them just as they come to fruition.
most of them were launched from the Netherlands
we got a lot to think about
whats for launch
that was excellent... surprised they didn't bleed off some of the thrust for the fuel pump... when they figured out how to do it, it worked well on Saturn V......
Very interesting. But as usual the subtitles add considerable humor; e.g. Meillerwagen became "my love organ" at 35:26!
2.45 the municipal museum on the Stadhouderslaan in the Hague.
Fascinating look at the launch procedures, which were barely "rocket science" but got the job done. Very "Mad Max."
Does anyone know what the tow vehicle is? Super cool.
Faun,not sure what model 🙃
Unbelievable
It took me some time to understand the word "Meillerwagen". It refers to the name of the maker of trailers, tippers plus equipment like hydraulics and couplings "Meiller" in Munich and other cities.
Very cool
All this work for 1700 lbs of delivered explosive. This is definitely not an fiscally sound weapon system. This was a terror weapon as demonstrated by its use mainly on civilian populations in Belgium and London. What is interesting is more people (slaves) died in its manufacture than were ever killed or wounded by the actual weapon system in the war! There are very good pictures of the caves and mines at Nordhausen and the surrounding concentration camps where the missiles were assembled and made. Absolutely no decent basic human accommodations were provided for food, shelter, hygiene or medical care. 10’s of thousands died under horrible conditions and inhumane treatment by the Germans.
It is a fact that there were no ways to feed or care for any prisoners in 1945, everything that moved by road or rail was targeted by Allied planes.
I think there are more interests in the continuity of war propaganda than in reality, the reality is unfortunately this, allies committed crimes of the same gravity as the Nazis, all this insistence on Nazi war crimes, which are not few, is more to take the focus away from the own atrocities they committed....
I just need to remember that at the end of the war to save Europe from a dictator, they handed over a good part of it to another, Stalin had concentration camps much bigger than the Nazis and they kept them even after the war ended, do you think that the victims of Stalin had decent basic human accommodations?
I don't support the Nazis but I'm not to believe in the hypocrisy of the Allied leaders either.
All the leaders, used the idealism of young people as an excuse for genocide, in the end each had their part in the killing.
@@M1sc3 Sir, May I remind you that there was an expectation of a limited work lifetime for prisoners. There was food available for the civilian population until February 1945 when the German Army withdrew from occupied lands in both Russia, Ukraine, Belurus and other areas were the German forced foraged for food and send any excess back to Germany. There were food scarcity, but little starvation among the Germans.It was a deliberate act not to provide adequate food to forced labor and concentration internees. POW’s were feed meager rations, but they were fed. At Wannsee they projected 30 million deaths from starvation as the food would be used for the army and Germany! No food were planned to be sent from Germany to the army while in Russia. After the war Eisenhower declared that the New German Government was responsible for feeding, clothing, housing and medical care of the Germans held in the Rhine Camps. Yes tens of thousands of Germans died of exposure and starvation in those camps. It is a blight on our country for such inhumane treatment. Remember Eisenhower saw first hand the treatment of those in the concentration camps and was disgusted and insensitive to the German POW’s. 27 million Russians dead, 30 million Europeans including the Jews, Political prisoners,civilians and some of every ethnic group you can name suffered. Anger, insensitivity and retribution were the emotions right after the war when the whole extent of the war was becoming known. Don’t just blame the allies it was everyone who was effected. Nothing like this had ever taken place in world history. You must remember America was a country of immigrants and our soldiers were in some cases just one generation away from coming from Europe.
1700 pounds of explosive isn't much. But I have to wonder if some of the rulers in the third reich were justifying all the effort used to develop the V2 by telling themselves they could be used to deliver primitive atom bombs.
Oh, you confused "concentration camp" with _work camps for prisoners_ like most of the ignorant people do.
@@alanfenick1103 I wonder how long it will be before the global consciousness rises to the point of accepting the long term effects of post 2021 activity will make those losses seem tame.
How did they program the guidance system for the proper trajectory?
analog computer. basically a clock as a sequencer with preprogrammed contacts.
The gyros hold the rocket in the proper attitude. You then got a electro-mechanical sequenzer to pitch it over to around 43 degrees.
The direction is determined on the firing platform by turning it the way you want the rocket to go.
The distance is determined by the speed at Brennschluss (when the engine cuts out), either by radio signal or by the rockets simple computer.
From them on it follows a ballistic trajectory like any artillery shell.
Obviously the advent of solid propellant was important to this venture.
That was so cool!
Did it backfire!?
The engineering and logistics involved to deliver less than a ton of of explosive is mad
But it nearly worked
Just using the local tracks, easy to transport to the Dutch and France coasts.
they did launch many and many! how many? 500???
A crazy amount of resources . Germany was disarming itself with every shot
@@lucasrem1870 I've heard that 1500 of them landed on Antwerp alone with London receiving about 700.
Good thing it took a long time.
Gloves in use when fuelling, but no eye protection, same situation for lathe operators and others in machine shops back then.
Now you have convinced me to buy a V2 German rocket!!
all you need is updated guidance systems, steering engine, and your good!
This design is good!
@@lucasrem1870 A cheap MCU, IMU with 6DoF and some matching MOSFETs should be good enough if you write a "small" software script to compensate for the drift factors.😉
I’m sorry. The V2 is only available in propaganda. We only have the A4 but hurry, quantities are limited & flying out fast. You must provide your own war head, but the compartment comes fully assembled. Will you be paying in pounds sterling? American dollars? Oil or Gold?
It's Italy today. Ducati and Moto Guzzi (and more) are famous for their V2 engines.
When you own a good museum, you can buy one. Better do the paperwork first, countries do not like your V2 coming at 3000 mph.
I was a Pershing 1a tech.
What were those tanks made of?
Cardboard
Thin Aluminum. That's why they're filled with the rocket standing up. Otherwise, the weight of the fuel would collapse the tank leaving all in the surrounding area at risk.
steel mostly. only the tanks in the rocket itself were aluminum.
In World War Two, when the things that this film shows at its beginning, we are in late 1939. Buy the time the thing lifted off, bingo -- Springtime 1945. Yeah, it was a rather tedious undertaking.
I wonder how that compares to today's preparations. That was vas labor intensive for sure.
The older liquid propellant US and USSR missiles took the same procedures
For an example, look up the SCUD missile. It's a liquid fueled missile evolved from the V2 that's been in widespread combat use during and since the Cold War, was used by Iraqi troops against American troops and Israeli civilians during the 1991 Gulf War, and still in service today.
This was great, but the best bit was at 37:00 "let's dunk our pendant car wash" - agreed commander, agreed 👍
With CC on obviously...
The Germans were the first into space with the V-2. The definition of space being the Karman Line….and that was 1942!
The Apollo missions never would have gotten off the ground without the German conceived Saturn V that Werner Von Braun designed and built.
@@dawor1761 …..and I remember growing up during the Apollo years (born 1960) and I never heard anything about the German engineers behind it…(Von Braun, Stülinger, etc.) we Americans assumed, through the press mostly, that it was an American grown program with American genius behind it.
@@hertzair1186 There were even other highly innovative rocket scientists working at Skoda Pribram plant for the SS, they developed the huge solid fuel V101 Skoda designed Rocket that was tested at 16.03.1945 in Rudisleben Arnstadt from Polte 2 plant, this one was flying radio guided over North Norway to come down near the North Pole region. it only missed its projected target by 6 Meters! That was quite something back in 1945, It was designed by a Dr.Büdewadt and Dr. Teichmann. V-101 was a solid fuel rocket, with THRUST 200 tons (not the amount of fuel). Range more than 1800 km, altitude 200 km. Designed by Dr. Büdewald and Dr. Teichmann at Skoda together with the SS group led by Hans Kammler. Length 30,26 m, width 2,82 m, weight 146 tons.
@@Schlipperschlopper …..What was your source for this info?
@@hertzair1186 "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department!' says Werner von Braun." Recorded by Tom Lehrer back in the 1960s: ua-cam.com/video/QEJ9HrZq7Ro/v-deo.html
I wonder how many of the that launch crew were Germans in British uniforms, hired as "subject matter experts".
The way they move, all germans!!
a single rocket needs 30 tons of potatoes to fuel it and german made around 3000 of them
Wow
But, how did they target the gyros?
They didn't , they used a clock to enable the gyros to tilt and make the rocket cant to 43 degrees. . Very primitive.
@@boptah7489 Also war die Himmelsrichtung egal, die Flugdauer und Antriebsphase waren unwichtig. Einfach eine Uhr - fertig. Wird schon ihr Ziel finden. "Very primitive", ein bemerkenswerter Kommentar.
@@boptah7489 Your are confusing the Vi with this; the VII or A4
@@ervie60 No. The V2 The whole thing was very primitive. Pathetic really
ua-cam.com/video/V_fPdXLx48c/v-deo.html
@@boptah7489 Wrong Bo, the V2 used an accelerometer to shut off the rocket engine
That clock you mentioned is used in the V1 to make a directional change after it was fired.
Watch this to the end, the clock is mentioned: ua-cam.com/video/5EEZuXQyA-E/v-deo.html
The V1 also had a counter that among other things extimated the distance and made the V1 dive.
Compared to the V2 guidance system yes a lot simpler.
Btw, the same German V2 engineers improved on the basic V2 guidance system.
Instead of MIT Draper's ideas these "primitive" V2 guidance principles were later used for any US missiles up to Minuteman.
The same goes for early Soviet guidance systems. A couple of top guidance boffins from Peenemuende showed Korelev and his comrades how to.
In conclusion your remark misses the mark. It was also a non engineering decision to leave out many electronics that improves accuracy. The real breakthrough of the Germans was to use electronics instead of mechanical computing to guide a missile.
But I guess you didn't know that form looking at that one video now did you?
WW2 brought many breakthroughs.
NO.
@@mwewering Jet aircraft, atomic bomb, radar.......
@@Coltnz1 Paperclip - Operation Overcast
@@mwewering The electronic programmable computer.