US captured V-1 missile tests 1949 - 1951

Rick Jones wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
The V-2 was the flip side of that...gawdawful expensive to produce,
doing a lot less damage from a economic sense per missile launched than
the production costs of the missile, and since there was no way to
defend against it once launched, not diverting any Allied resources to
the defense of its targets.

I thought though that capturing V-2 launch sites were a top priority
and so diverted offensive attention from other, perhaps more promising
areas of the front? Or did I just read too much into the dialog of
"Patton?-)"

Unlike the V-1, which needed its fixed catapult for launching, the V-2
could be launched from any site within a few hours once it had been
surveyed to determine its exact longitude and latitude - as the whole
launching infrastructure was road-mobile. So the only way to stop
attacks on England by it was to capture all territory that would have
allowed it to get in range of its targets (its range was 234 miles).
The V-1 sites were a target for allied ground forces to grab in France,
but I don't know if the V-2 sites mentioned in the movie were a
confusion with those.
There's info on the mobile V-2 operations he
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deploy...perations.html
And where they were fired from at various cities he
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deploy...ile_front.html

Pat


Pat

On Sep 4, 10:27*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Rick Jones wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
The V-2 was the flip side of that...gawdawful expensive to produce,
doing a lot less damage from a economic sense per missile launched than
the production costs of the missile, and since there was no way to
defend against it once launched, not diverting any Allied resources to
the defense of its targets.

I thought though that capturing V-2 launch sites were a top priority
and so diverted offensive attention from other, perhaps more promising
areas of the front? *Or did I just read too much into the dialog of
"Patton?-)"

Unlike the V-1, which needed its fixed catapult for launching, the V-2
could be launched from any site within a few hours once it had been
surveyed to determine its exact longitude and latitude - as the whole
launching infrastructure was road-mobile. So the only way to stop
attacks on England by it was to capture all territory that would have
allowed it to get in range of its targets (its range was 234 miles).
The V-1 sites were a target for allied ground forces to grab in France,
but I don't know if the V-2 sites mentioned in the movie were a
confusion with those.
There's info on the mobile V-2 operations hehttp://www.v2rocket.com/start/deploy...perations.html
And where they were fired from at various cities hehttp://www.v2rocket..com/start/deplo...ile_front.html

Pat

Pat

Quite a few V-1s were also airlaunched from carrier aircraft.

Dean wrote:
Quite a few V-1s were also airlaunched from carrier aircraft.

I've got a 1/48th scale model of one of those by Revell Monogram.
It's a He-111 H-22, and is a really nice kit.
Accuracy on the air-launched ones was really bad, to the point where the
British couldn't figure out what the intended target city was in some cases.
The V-1s also sometimes exploded while being carried or at launch,
destroying the carrier aircraft.
There's footage of one being launched starting at the 1:45 part of this
video (the first part is the Hs-293 rocket-boosted glide bomb):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcFmagrdgI4
As you can see, the V-1 oscillates quite a bit after launch as the gyro
tries to get it on course and stabilized into level flight.

Pat