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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    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.
    The Israelis had previously asked him nicely to back off from helping Saddam, but the guy was too, er, Bull headed to stop. ..

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    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.

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  • ladymuck
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    Good job it's not a Chinese rocket

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

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    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.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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?

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    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".
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 8 September 2020, 15:41.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    sorry wasn't sure if you would hear it over the engines...
    The time to worry is when the engines stop!

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    no need to shout.

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

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  • BR14
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Wont be as easy to bomb as Peenemünde. Did the yanks give them back their rocket scientists?
    no need to shout.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    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?
    Last edited by vetran; 8 September 2020, 14:41.

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  • BR14
    started a topic V3 anyone?

    V3 anyone?

    Germany's tooling up again

    Germany eyes space satellite launchpad in North Sea - BBC News
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