Friday, June 22, 2018

Facts about the V-2 Rocket

                            V2 rockets
what are V2 rockets made of ?
Eyewitness accounts describe prisoners being hanged from cranes above the rockets assembly lines. Despite his complicity in the conditions at Mittelwerk, the engineer who designed the v2, Wernher von Braun, came to be feted as a hero of the space age.

Who invented v2 rockets ?
1944 was a German and, later, American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in germany and the father of rocket technology and space science in the united states and the person who invented was Wernher von Braun.

When did v2 rockets attacks begin ?
Launched from mobile units, each V2 rocket was 14 `metres 46ft high and carried a ton 900 kg of explosives. The first attack on London, on 8 september 1944 gouged a crater 10m 32ft across, killed three people and injured 22 people.    

How fast v2 rockets fly?

The speed of the V-2 rocket is 5,760km per hour.     

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