Originally Posted by timmy41 (Post 1337211)

I watched a video about the womens defense auxiliary that manned (or womanned?) the coastal defense 12.8cm guns. There was a lot of footage in it of them shooting down the v1s, often if they werent destroyed in mid air, they would be destabilized and crash, hopefully landing in the cleared areas but sometimes on the gun positions themselves.
ill try to find it.

Originally Posted by Patkins1983 (Post 1338755)

We didn't always have to shoot them down or intercept them. We just fed false data back to the germans that they were over-shooting london so when the germans corrected for this, they landed short of london.

Bet the germans were a bit annoyed when/if they found out about it.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley (Post 1334762)

I wonder if they could have ever converted a V2 to be fired from a U-Boat? That really would have been hard to counter,they would simply park the U-Boat literally in the Thames somewhere and *boom!*,bob's your aunty,they would have never had time to react to such a sudden attack :o
Looking at the images the system looked very rudimentary and would have created awful drag I reckon.Ideally it needs to be installed inside the hull itself?,like modern Trident subs.
Interesting link jim,cheers.

Originally Posted by maillemaker (Post 1336356)

Not to be pedantic here, but it is mostly velocity, not altitude, that determines if something goes into orbit or not, though of course if you don't want to be dragged down by resistance against the atmosphere you have to be high enough to be out of the atmosphere. But if you launch something straight up, even if it is outside of the atmosphere it won't get "stuck" there. It has to be going fast enough so that as it "falls" it follows the curvature of the Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2

Operational
range 320 km (200 mi) Flight altitude 88 km (55 mi) maximum altitude on long range trajectory, 206 km (128 mi) maximum altitude if launched vertically. Speed maximum: 1,600 m/s (5,200 ft/s)5,760 km/h (3,580 mph) at impact:
800 m/s (2,600 ft/s)2,880 km/h (1,790 mph)The reason why the V2 was impossible to shoot down was because it was traveling up to 4.5 times faster than the speed of sound. The Allies had nothing that could intercept it.



I tend to say all's fair in love and war. We nuked two cities, after all.

Steve

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1337283)

Looking forward to seeing it :up:

Originally Posted by ERPP8 (Post 1339033)

Yes!!!
The V2 was a suborbital BALLISTIC MISSILE
Aside from heat-seeking countermeasures they do what they want.
Even today we can't really shoot down a ballistic missile without it's exact course(I don't think the enemy will publish it)