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Vengeance Weapon 2

Here is a fascinating video that shows just how advanced Werner von Braun and the German Nazi state were 75 years ago. In some ways, we are still catching up.

One thing we have learned, however, is that it isn’t really a good idea to steer the rocket thrust by putting vanes in the exhaust plume. However, notice they are using liquid oxygen, as we still do today. The engine propellant pumps were driven by steam turbines, themselves powered by a simple “rocket” using hydrogen peroxide, sodium permanganate, and water.

Had they had navigation systems better than “point, count, and pray”, they might have achieved a lot more damage in Britain. As it was, the V2s were more of a terror weapon than a weapon of destruction.

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