V-2 rocket (redirect from V2 rocket)
The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic...
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Horten Ho 229 (redirect from Horten IX V2)
flight, followed by the H.IX V2, powered by Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engines in December 1944. However, on 18 February 1945 the V2 was destroyed in a crash...
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Amerikabomber (redirect from America Bomber)
since been discredited as Ju 390 V2 never flew. As both the Me 264 and He 277 were each intended to be four-engined bombers from their origins, the troubling...
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Junkers Ju 287 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
single large bomb bay design. The first and second prototypes (Ju 287 V1 and V2; both designated Ju 288 V201 and Ju 288 V202 for security reasons) were intended...
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Silbervogel (redirect from Antipodal bomber)
1941. Boost-glide Keldysh bomber Spacecraft propulsion Blue Streak (missile) Rocket sled launch Reuter, Claus (2000). The V2 and the German, Russian and...
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Heinkel He 112 (redirect from Heinkel He 112 V2)
the limit, this was not seen as a problem, and the V2 was sent off for testing.[citation needed] The V2, like its predecessor, had problems with spin stability...
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Dornier Do 19 (category 1930s German bomber aircraft)
"The Fuehrer does not ask me what kind of bombers I have. He simply wants to know how many!" Therefore, the V2 and V3 prototypes were scrapped. The original...
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payload and better performance, whatever design won the Bomber B competition would replace all bombers in service. With engines in the 2,000 to 2,500 hp range...
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Heinkel He 111 (redirect from Heinkel Type 98 Medium Bomber)
to restrictions placed on Germany after the First World War prohibiting bombers, it was presented solely as a civil airliner, although from conception...
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Junkers EF 61 (redirect from Junkers EF 61 V2)
that year the EF 61 V1 was destroyed in a crash. The second prototype EF 61 V2 was ready in late 1937 but also crashed in December 1937, even before high-altitude...
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Junkers Ju 390 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
well, resulting in an order in early 1944 for six more prototypes (Ju 390 V2 to V7) and 20 examples of the intended production version. to be named Ju...
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V2. Escape from Hell (Russian: Девятаев, romanized: Devyatayev) is a 2021 Russian prison action thriller war biopic film directed by Timur Bekmambetov...
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Backers-Up began at 12:31 a.m. to destroy the V2 works, in two buildings about 300 yd (270 m) long. The bombers carried a minimum of ninety 4,000 lb (1,814 kg)...
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De Havilland Mosquito (redirect from Mosquito bomber)
Mosquito bombers were formed into the Light Night Striking Force to guide RAF Bomber Command heavy bomber raids and as "nuisance" bombers, dropping Blockbuster...
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Bf 110s were flown as close escort to German bombers during the Battle of Britain. When British bombers began targeting German territory with nightly...
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Dornier Do 335 (redirect from Dornier Do 335 V2)
prototype, V2 (Werk Nr 230002) CP+UB, was completed and made its first flight on 31 December 1943, again under the control of Dieterle. New to the V2 were upgraded...
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Focke-Wulf Fw 191 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
by the Heinkel He 111P shortly before the war and used on most German bombers during the war, remotely controlled armament, and was to be powered by...
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Henschel Hs 130 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
engines powered the two prototypes; the V1 by Daimler-Benz DB 601s and the V2 by Junkers Jumo 210s. Both had fixed landing gear. While trials of the two...
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Messerschmitt Me 264 (category Strategic bombers)
fighter-bomber. No further payments for development work on the Me 264 were made to Messerschmitt AG. Late in 1943, the second prototype, Me 264 V2, was...
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Sottevast was a Second World War bunker complex for launching V2-weapons in Sottevast near Cherbourg, in Normandy, France. It was built, under the codename...
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attack by the RAF bomber command on Peenemünde on the night of August 17–18, 1943. The attack was carried out by a total of 596 bombers (324 Avro Lancaster...
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Heinkel He 100 (redirect from Heinkel He 100A V2)
showed up and asked to fly V2, after pointing out he had flown the V1 at Rechlin. He took over from Herting and flew the V2 to a new world 100 km (62 mi)...
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OKB-1 EF 131 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
V2 and V3, the second and third prototypes (V – Versuchs – test/research/prototype) of the Luftwaffe's radical forward-swept-wing jet bomber. The V2 was...
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these changes, the BV 155 V2 flew on 8 February 1945. Blohm & Voss was still not satisfied with the design, and before the V2 began its flight trials they...
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Junkers Ju 88 (category 1930s German bomber aircraft)
followed Soviet bombers returning from a night raid on Tallinn, catching the Soviets unprepared and destroying many Soviet bombers and their fuel reserves...
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Dornier Do 217 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
initially on earlier Heinkel bombers (He 111 P and He 177 A). Two 1,560 PS BMW 801L radial engines. Do 217 K-1: Standard bomber version. Do 217 K-2: Extended...
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Dornier Do 17 (category 1930s German bomber aircraft)
and Do 17M V2 (Werk Nr 692) which were tested with bomb loads of a medium bomber. The third prototype, Do 17M V3 was evaluated as a fast bomber. The M V1...
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Heinkel He 177 Greif (category Strategic bombers)
four-engined heavy bombers used by the Allies in the European theatre. Work on the design began in response to a 1936 requirement known as Bomber A, issued by...
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Heinkel He 274 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
altitude.[citation needed] Construction of the two prototypes, the He 274 V1 and V2 did not commence until 1943. They were to have been built in France by SAUF...
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fighter/bomber design, designated under Luftwaffe protocols as the Horten H.IX. For their completion of the three Ho 229 prototypes (V1, V2, V3), the...
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