Aggregat 4 - V-2 Rocket - Anti-Aircraft Variants

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Aggregat 4 - V-2 Rocket - Unknown - Anti-Aircraft Variants

- Aggregat 4 / V-2 Warhead with 427 small 'Planet' rockets.

- Aggregat 4 / V-2 mit Schrapnellfüllung gegen Flugziele

January 6, 1945

Summary Report
Kammler / Geist, Kunze, Diesing
Weapons:
The Reichsmarschall had tasked SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS Dr.-Ing. Kammler with playing a key role in the front-line testing of all anti-aircraft weapons fired from the ground. A special meeting regarding anti-aircraft weapons with Dr. Kammler and Oberst Geist will be held soon at HDL Saur. Work on the A4 missile for use against aerial targets with shrapnel warheads must begin immediately

Source: Bundesarchiv
Signatur: RL 3/12; Page: 156

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Wait, so the plan was to locate a stream of B-17 and B-24, aim a V-2 at them and detonate it at 30 000 ft with a 1600 pound warhead of shrapnel ? quite a radical take at the Wasserfall guidance problem.
 

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