Switching on the V2 at the instant of lift-off Rightly called a robot bomb during WWII, the V2 rocket was the world’s first fully cybernetic weapon—a war robot. Nothing illustrates the V2 robot’s autonomous character better than the A72 launch […]
By steam engine to the stars? An overview of the V2 rocket’s turbopump The idea that one of the most significant inventions to emerge from the second world war was ‘steam-driven’ may strike you as more than a little anachronistic; […]
The eighteen pot injector head. This is the first image blog from Alexsander Savochkin in what we hope will become an expanding resource for those wishing to find out more about the design and construction of the A4/V2 missile. The […]
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