Weapon V

Weapon V (German Vergeltungswaffe) - German retaliatory weapons. Germany defined new weapons developed during World War II and put into service at the end of the war. Weapon V included: Rocket V2

V-2 missiles were vertical launch rockets, capable of blasting targets of 300 km or more. V-1 missiles were more constructively closer to jet-powered aircraft, taking off from several tens of ramps (launchers) positioned in the direction of the attacked objects. Work on the V-1 and V-2 missiles was carried out at the Kummersdorf plant near Berlin and the Peenemünde testing facility on the island of Usedom, and after its bombing in 1943 in a new experimental facility in the Pustków-Blizna area near Dębica. V-2 rocket production was transferred to an underground factory in Nordhausen in the Harz mountains of Thuringia (Mittelwerk, code name Dora). The V-1 and V-2 projectors were Wernher von Braun.

The V-1 and V-2 missiles were used by the Germans in mid-1944 to attack London and other cities and industrial centers of Great Britain, and then also repatriated by the Allies of Paris, Lille, Antwerp, Brussels, Liege. , Maastricht.

The Polish resistance movement was a significant part of the fight against German new weapons technology. In February 1943, the Peenemünde Intelligence Service detected the Peenemünde and provided the Western Allies with information on the nature of the work carried out there. Based on, inter alia, On 18 August 1943, the RAF aviation carried out a massive raid, severely destroying the Peenemünde. In 1944, the AK Intelligence gave the Allies the remains of the acquired V-2 rocket.

After the defeat by the Third Reich War Wernher von Braun escaped the war court, being taken over by the Americans interested in rocket technology (Operation Spinacz). For many years von Braun has worked on American space rocket projects, including Apollo missions.

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