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Service: First Flight: Manufacturer: Wernher
von Braun, Kummersdorf
Number built: 1
Type: Surface-to-Surface Missile
Guidance system:
Gyroscope
Length: 1.395 m
Wingspan: m
Diameter:
0.3 m
Weight: 149 kg
Engine: 1 × liquid fuel rocket
engine producing up to 300 kg of thrust
Maximum speed: km/h
Range:
km
Warhead: Fuze: Launch Platform: Mobile
Operators: Heer
Variants: A-1 A-2
A-3 A-4 A-4
SLBM A-4b / A-9 A-5
A-6
A-7
A-8
A-9 / A-10
Other: Missiles Articles:
The Aggregate
1 (A-1) was the first in a series of ballistic missiles designed and developed
by Dr.-Ing. Wernher
von Braun in 1933 under the leadership of Dr. Walter
Robert Dornberger, at Kummersdorf south of Berlin.
The Aggregate
1 (A-1) ballistic missile was 1.395 m long by 0.3 m in diameter and had a takeoff
weight 149 kg and also incorporated a gyroscope in the nose section to stabilise
the missile in flight. The rocket engine used 25% liquid oxygen and 75% ethanol
in a pressure fed system to give a maximum thrust of 300 kg for 16 seconds of
burn time which was designed by Arthur
Rudolph.
There were several successful tests of the rocket engine.
However, on the first launch attempt the missile blew up on the launch pad, and
so no further development continued with this variant of Aggregate rocket.
The Warplanes
of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822
German Aircraft of the Second
World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242
Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X
For a complete list of
sources 
