Service Data:
In Service:
Production Data:
First Flight:
Manufacturer: Mittelwerk GmbH,
Peenemünde
Number built: 6,000 all variants
Technical Data:
Type: Surface-to-Surface Missile
Guidance system: Gyroscope
Length: 14 m
Wingspan: 3.56 m
Diameter: 1.65 m
Weight: 12,900 kg
Engine: 1 × liquid fuel rocket engine producing
up to to 25,000 kg of thrust
Maximum speed: 5,580 km/h
Range: 320 km
Warhead: 980 kg Amatol
Fuze: impact
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:
History:
The Aggregat 4 (A-4) SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile)
which was a ballistic missile, That was intended to be launched
from a U-boat. Which was designed and developed by Dr.-Ing.
Wernher
von Braun in 1944 under the leadership of Dr. Walter
Robert Dornberger, at
Greifswalder
Oie,
Peenemünde.
The Aggregat 4 (A-4) SLBM used the standard
Aggregat
4 (A-4) missile, and was intended to be towed to its launch
position by a U-boat in a in a specially constructed launch
platform called Lafferenz capsules, It was intended for a
U-boat to be able to tow up to three of these capsules at
any given time. The first prototype capsule was built by Sichau
Dockyards at Elbing which will weighed 300 tons. Three further
Lafferenz capsules were manufactured by
AG
Vulcan in Stettin these weighed 500 tons and were later
captured by the Soviets.
Gallery:
Heer Comments
Sources:
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
