So much has been written about the German V-2 missile that I can't go over everything in this box. But basically 5200 were made and used to attack targets in Britain and Belgium + 11 at the Remagen bridge (which helped it collapse when the Ar-234 jet bombers hit it). They were more of a nuisance than a military strategic weapon due to lack of precision accuracy. But unlike the V-1, it could not be intercepted by fighters nor shot down with AAA using proximity fuses. In the lyrics I mention Mach 3, but that was only the climb to altitude. It fell at Mach 6 (4500 mph)! That helped when the 2145 lbs of Amatol exploded, shattering entire neighborhoods and striking fear. Latter V-2s were mobile and even train-launched! Another version recently declassified was the D-2 which was a radiological carrier version. 5 were built at Leese but destroyed with no radilogical packages delivered (German had 2 radiological spheres under construction at Ohrdruf). ONE V-2 was caught in the air by chance as it was launched from a forest and destroyed, but that is another story!!!

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