Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] WW II V2 rocket sites update
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:58:16 -0400
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At 01:23 PM 8/18/01 +0200, Pascal wrote:
>Also, there are indications that the Germans were experimenting with nuclear
>payloads. It is only due to the late stage of the war that realization of
>all these plans could be prohibited ! But they had the knowledge, and that
>was put to fruition by the Allies after the war ended...

The German nuclear-bomb project was ended in 1943 and the uranium collected
for the project was diverted to the production of depleted-uranium
anti-tank rounds, shades of DESERT STORM!  See Speer, INSIDE THE THIRD
REICH or OPERATION EPSILON:  THE FARM HALL TRANSCRIPTS (Post-War commentary
by Heisenberg & al, transcripts of private conversations while in British
custody) for discussion.

The A9/A10 project was never more than a design exercize.  See Willy Ley,
ROCKETS, MISSILES, AND SPACE TRAVEL, for discussion.  Even more intriquing
was the Antipodes Rocket, a sub-orbital skip-bomber designed to bomb
Australia.  But none of these projects ever got off the drafting table.

Simply put, the Germans lacked the resources to produce anything on the
scale of this weaponry.  Both the Manhatten Project and the B-29/B-32 cost
more than Germany spent for its entire war effort from 1941 until 1945.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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