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At the end of World War II, the Revenge** developed by scientists had the potential to change the course of the war, especially the V2, which not only did not require pilots, but also had a considerable range, allowing it to attack any target in the United Kingdom or in Allied territory on the European continent. They are true instruments of terror, bringing death to allies and civilians in their short lives, and shaking their morale.
World War II was not just a war fought by the army, navy, and air force, but in fact the entire society mobilized to fight this so-called "total war." It is no longer enough for any country to have an army of valiant and resolute soldiers;They must be equipped with tanks, aircraft, artillery, submarines, and other equipment that are more advanced than the enemy. On the battlefield, technological superiority leads to victory. Hitler finally mobilized German society for a general war, scientists and engineers became an indispensable part of the war machine of the Third Reich, and German science and technology became the means of defeating the enemy.
In Hitler's quest for "surprise**" in order to win the war in one fell swoop, Germany's scientific, industrial, and military elites were united for a common goal;Eventually, scientists and technicians built and operated Hitler's Vergeltungs Waffen, better known as the V-Series, and they all ended up in the army, only to fall under the control of the SS.
They were a new generation of warriors who spent the final year of the Second World War spreading death and destruction to targets in Britain and Western Europe. The British saw those who developed the Revenge** as mortal enemies, so in August 1943 the RAF launched an airstrike on the Revenge** test centre at Peenemunde, with one of the main objectives being to kill as many of them as possible.
Rocket Elite. In the 20s of the 20th century, a group of young German scientists formed an association to develop rockets that could be used to travel to and from space planets. They conducted numerous experiments to propel warheads into the atmosphere using rockets that used highly flammable fuels as thrust, and the most talented and active of the early enthusiasts was a 19-year-old student named Wernher von Braun, who would later become famous for designing the American Apollo rocket that landed humans on the moon in 1969.
It was not long before the German Army became interested in the experiments carried out by these rocket scientists, and as early as 1929 the relevant equipment was carried out at the Kumosdorf test site. Walter Dornberger, a young Army officer with a degree in mechanical engineering, who oversaw the testing of the first rockets, became the head of Hitler's rocket program, the equivalent of Brigadier General Leslie Grove of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb in the United States.
By the early '30s, Braun and many of his colleagues were working on the Army's Experimental Rocket Program for Dornberg, whose goal was to find out if it was possible to turn rockets into practical applications for military applications. Their original conception was rather restrained, and their tactical application was quite limited.
In 1934, Germany's first military rocket, the A2, was tested for the first time, with a range of about 2 kilometers (6,500 feet).Two years later, as the research progressed quite well, the Army General Command simply began to work on Dornberg and Braun blank checks to develop long-range **. They began planning to build a test site for secret testing, so construction of the research center began in Penemünde on the Baltic coast, and the Luftwaffe began to build a test facility in a nearby location, but most of its activities were not related to the Army Ordnance Agency.
In the end, more than 3,000 people worked in the research center, including laboratories, assembly plants, test sites, airports and power stations. Today's calculations would cost more than $2 billion to build the center. By 1940, the research center was completed and operational, allowing the rocket research program to be accelerated.
The failure of the Luftwaffe's bombing campaign against Britain in the summer of 1940 greatly elevated the status of the rocket program for the first time, as Hitler was looking for a way to cross the English Channel to strike the enemy, so the development of the A4 rocket accelerated, and the first test launch was carried out in 1942.
After two failures, the A4 rocket was successfully launched for the first time on 3 October 1942, with the countdown to launch by Dornberg, who had been promoted to colonel. The rocket broke through the sound barrier, went into space, and re-entered the atmosphere;In a flight time of more than a minute, the rocket flew a distance of more than 190 kilometers (117 miles) and finally fell into the Baltic Sea, where the point of impact was only 4 kilometers (25 miles).