Reply to: Adolph V2'ed German cities

[suityou01]

For suity - ww2 is over now.

HTH

I know dat!

FFs what kind of cretin do you take me for?

[zeitghost]

We were manufacturing it as well...

BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1990: Customs seize 'supergun'

Composite pipes. Dear lord, I can tell you so much I want to forget about composite pipes.

Yes. There was a lot of fuss about that at the time.




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For dear old Freako, this relates to the perfidy of government, particularly in attempting to prosecute people for stuff which parts of government had approved.

Odd really.

Well, not really.

Much what one might expect, all in all.

Scott identified three main areas of democratic concern. First, the Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939 was emergency legislation passed at the outbreak of the Second World War.

It allowed the government to issue regulations which were not subject to resolutions in Parliament, for the duration of the emergency, which would make it a criminal offence to export particular goods to particular countries.

While the Act should have been lapsed in 1945, it remained in force, and had been modified in 1990 so as to become part of the Import and Export Control Act 1990. [1]

The second area was the failure of ministerial accountability; the principle that "for every action of a servant of the crown a minister is answerable to Parliament".

The third area was that of Public interest immunity certificates, which had been issued during the Matrix Churchill trial.

As a result of these certificates, innocent men were in danger of being sent to prison, because the government would not allow the defence counsel to see the documents that would exonerate their clients.

While some of these contained potentially sensitive intelligence material, many were simply internal communications: the certificates were intended to protect the Ministers and civil servants who had written the communications, rather than the public interest.

[minestrone]

"we thought it was for the oil industry, we know nothing about some, what did you call it? 'super gun'?"

[minestrone]

The V3 was the inspiration for one of Sadam's madder ideas, creating a staged gun to lob shells at Israel.

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Gerald Bull had his head blown off by Mossad in an attempt to discourage him.

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For dear old Freako: the above relates to a gun for Saddam Hussein. The Israelies didn't like the idea too much & put a stop to it.

We were manufacturing it as well...

BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1990: Customs seize 'supergun'

Composite pipes. Dear lord, I can tell you so much I want to forget about composite pipes.

[BrilloPad]

For suity - ww2 is over now.

HTH

[zeitghost]

The V3 was the inspiration for one of Sadam's madder ideas, creating a staged gun to lob shells at Israel.

Project Babylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gerald Bull had his head blown off by Mossad in an attempt to discourage him.

Gerald Bull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


For dear old Freako: the above relates to a gun for Saddam Hussein. The Israelies didn't like the idea too much & put a stop to it.

[suityou01]

They might have only had a 200 mile range, but a top speed of 3500 mph, so they covered that ground quite quickly.

Also, they couldn't have been all that bad as they were in service until 1952.

[barrydidit]

This one though was fixed in the rock and pointed at London. Allies bombed it before it was ever fired I think.

This was the V3 site. Much less sophisticated technology.

Gustav was the train cannon, also used against Leningrad IIRC.

[stek]

They had some massive train mounted cannon that was used against Sevastopol and they had to change the barrel after 200 shots I think. I don't think they ever changed the barrel.

This one though was fixed in the rock and pointed at London. Allies bombed it before it was ever fired I think.

[minestrone]

They had some massive train mounted cannon that was used against Sevastopol and they had to change the barrel after 200 shots I think. I don't think they ever changed the barrel.

[stek]

There was also a V3 too wasn't there? Basically a massive gun...

[stek]

Also by this time so many German agents had been turned and were feeding back deliberately false data re the V weapons strike success, or many more might have hit populous areas.

[minestrone]

The V2 factories they had in that mine were truly horrific.

von Braun got away with complete murder thanks to the Americans.

[minestrone]

I think they sent 2000 of these over and they killed 4000?

Wonders of the age technologically but complete boondoggles.

[OwlHoot]

Why would the Nazis use German cities, when they could test it on Polish or Dutch or French cities?

Sounds like bollox to me.

(a) Possibly to maintain popular support against the evil allies, supposedly lobbing rockets into German cities

or (b) if the cities had already been flattened by allied bombing and largely abandoned it would have made little difference

or (c) to allow easy and secure access to assess the accuracy of the things and the damage they caused

or (d) not much alternative as the V2 had only a 200 mile range, which sounds a lot but isn't that far from a remote launch site on the German coast.

But that said, it sounds like bollux to me too.