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| Subject: | Re: Post war German stuff |  |
| Date: | Aug 27, 2007 |
| From: | Arun Bauer | |
Hi Mats
As far as I've read the posts, nobody mentioned the A4/V2 Rockets and other pieces of German rocktetry. The Americans and the Russians tried to gather as much of the remaining items and parts as they could (as well as scientists and operative workers).
The Americans succeded to evacuate about hundred assembled rockets from the "Mittelwerk Dora" before they handed it over to the Soviet troops, but there were enough parts left to assemble lots of rockets and the US forces were not able to evacuate all of the usefull documents about the production of these weapons.
The Germans themselves had produced about 6000 of them between 1944 and 1945 and fired some 3500, be it for testing, training or against Allied targets.
The Russians were able to build their own remakes of the V2 within less than a year and used them for research purposes and further development througout the fifties until the ealy sixties. Some of the early Soviet IBM's originated from this rocket as well.
You could say that the A4/V2 is the backbone of modern rocketry and and spaceflight, in civilian as well as military use.
Yours
Arun Bauer |
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 | Post war German stuff - Mats Isgren - Aug 25, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Mark Holoboski - Aug 26, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Juan Contreras - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Gazza Hollett - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Juan Palomino - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Chris Oldfield - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Andrew Herbert - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Chris Oldfield - Aug 28, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Arun Bauer - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . British and Canadians too.. - W Bruce Clark - Aug 29, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Gerald Owens - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Kim Eriksen - Aug 29, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Kim Eriksen - Aug 29, 2007 |
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