The secret of V-2 rocket

Kimmo Huosionmaa

People usually think that German A-4 or V-2 rockets were some kind of ridiculous material, what might only laugh people. But as many people know, the objective of the V-2 program was the mass extermination in Great Britain. The idea was to deliver anthrax bacterium with that weapon. But the program was terminated after V-2 rocket launching sites were captured by the Allied troops. V-2 is a sad story about the case when brilliant scientist put their skills in the hands of dictators. 

The weapon itself was effective against military targets, but that was the great way to terrorize civilians. I think that American military and civilian authorities were able to create their own rocket without Nazi scientists. And an only real reason why American military created “Operation Paperclip” was they wanted to get those scientists from the hands of the Soviet Union. 

That biological weapon was put in the head of that rocket, in the tungsten labs, what were filled with that bacteria. When the V-2 rocket rose above the atmosphere, the rocket would turn back, and barometric explosive will open the head of the missile. After that the rocket would start to circulate rapidly, and after that those lambs were delivered in the large areas. That project was denied because the biological weapon was unable to destroy military equipment, and also the epidemic might be uncontrollable. 

The truth is that project what might cost millions of lives was terminated because the advantage of the bacteria was unable to follow. Also, Germans thought to use  V-2 rockets at the battlefront with nerve gases like sarin. In that solution that nerve agent would put in those tungstens with anthrax, but the project was terminated because the V-2 rockets were too difficult to build and they were too little those things for large-scale operational use. Also, those missiles were so unsharp that all other than mass destruction weapons were ineffective in that missile.  

And the other reasons for that action was that Allied forces were preparing for the situation after WW2. In the German headquarters were men, who wanted to join the United States military, and begin the WW 3 against the Soviet Union. The story of the V-2 rocket is very popular and well known. That weapon had only psychological capacities when it was loaded with that 1000 kilogram warhead. But that weapon was so complicated, that Allied intelligence services believed that weapon was made for carrying the mass destruction purpose. And that mass destruction would be done by gas or some biological weapon. And that might cause that allied would attack the Germany with nuclear weapons.