V3 anyone?

[BR14]

Germany's tooling up again

Germany eyes space satellite launchpad in North Sea - BBC News

[vetran]

Germany's tooling up again

Germany eyes space satellite launchpad in North Sea - BBC News

Wont be as easy to bomb as Peenemünde. Did the yanks give them back their rocket scientists?

[BR14]

Wont be as easy to bomb as Peenemünde. Did the yanks give them back their rocket scientists?

no need to shout.

[vetran]

no need to shout.

sorry wasn't sure if you would hear it over the engines...

[Zigenare]

sorry wasn't sure if you would hear it over the engines...

The time to worry is when the engines stop!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Er, they already had a V3 (a big feckoff gun in France for shelling London) and a V4 (a curiously useless rocket thing*), so it'd have to be the V5.



*Rheinbote - Wikipedia.

"The fastest rocket of the era".

[vetran]

Er, they already had a V3 (a big feckoff gun in France for shelling London) and a V4 (a curiously useless rocket thing), so it'd have to be the V5.

Didn't that (V3) end up in Iraq?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Didn't that (V3) end up in Iraq?

Gerald Bull took the idea & ran with it.

But all those curiously precisely machined tubes were for the oil industry, honest.

Sadly enough, for Bull, Mossad (allegedly) didn't believe it & he got TWEPed.

[ladymuck]

Good job it's not a Chinese rocket

Another Chinese rocket falls near a school, creating toxic orange cloud | Ars Technica

[DoctorStrangelove]

Good job it's not a Chinese rocket

Another Chinese rocket falls near a school, creating toxic orange cloud | Ars Technica

Impressive.

At least our steam driven rockets from Woomera used something slightly less nasty when the first stages plonked down on the outback.

Black Knight (rocket) - Wikipedia

Black Arrow - Wikipedia

The UK: the only country ever to have a home grown launch system & to give it up.

Grocer Heath, you make us proud.