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Nazis=20 and the Bomb
January 12, 2012 =By Mark Walker
How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? = The truth=20 is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a = weapon like=20 the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. This was not because = the=20 country lacked the scientists, resources, or will, but rather because = its=20 leaders did not really try.
They were certainly trying to win the war. And they were willing to = devote=20 huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes, and other = forms of=20 deadly and sometimes exotic forms of military technology. So why not the = atomic=20 bomb? Nazi Germany, it turns out, made other choices and simply ran out = of=20 time.
This is a schematic rather than a blueprint for an actual = atomic=20 bomb, and its unknown creator may have drawn it after the war. But it = supports=20 evidence discussed in this article that the Germans sought to develop=20 ...
read=20 moreThe=20 Possible Weapon Alternatives
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Tales and legends of all kinds have grown up since World War II: = stories of=20 super-bombs, deadly ray-guns and covert deals. Some sources say that the = Nazis=20 had flying saucers ready to roll and had even exploded an atomic bomb. = Yet there=20 are still dramatic new lessons to be learned. Although we think of the = United=20 States as the home of atomic power, we should also recognize how far it developed in Germany, Britain, Russia and Japan - all of these nations = had=20 their own atomic bomb projects. 'Shock and awe' did not begin in the war = with=20 Iraq, but was born back in World War II. We will find that many of the = greatest=20 war criminals of all time were secretly pardoned and illicitly given = sanctuary=20 in exchange for continuing their work on secret weapons, but this time = for the other side. Although the devastating raid on Pearl Harbor by ...
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Simultaneous with its approval of the resumption of work on the Graf=20 Zeppelin, the Seekriegsleitung also took some concrete action to address = the=20 perceived need for additional carriers. The incomplete hull of the heavy = cruiser=20 Seydlitz, on which there had been little progress since late 1940, was = selected=20 for conversion into a carrier. The superstructure was razed to the upper = deck in preparation for erecting a hangar and flight deck but, as with the Graf = Zeppelin, all work ceased at the end of January 1943. The hulk was towed = to=20 K=C3=B6nigsberg and scuttled there in April 1945. The Kriegsmarine never = commissioned=20 a carrier.
Following the loss of the battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during = which=20 British aircraft carriers proved instrumental, and the near torpedoing = of her=20 sistership Tirpitz in March 1942, the Kriegsmarine became convinced of = the=20 necessity of acquiring aircraft carriers. Work on the purpose-built = carrier Graf=20 Zeppelin, which ...
= read=20 moreBritain=20 could have 'crushed Germany within three years' if RAF had not REJECTED=20 inventor's plans for world's first jet fighter
Innovative: This week sees the 70th anniversary of the = first jet=20 flight in the UK - the Gloster E.28/39, powered by Sir Frank Whittle's = turbojet=20 design, took off from RAF Cranwell, in Sleaford, Lincolnshire on May 15, = 1941
By Daily Mail Reporter
The Allies would have crushed Nazi Germany 'within three years' if = the RAF=20 had not rejected plans by a British inventor to build the world's first=20 jet-powered fighter planes, according to new research.
Inventor Sir Frank Whittle was told his designs for a 500mph jet were = 'totally unrealistic' and RAF chiefs refused to invest a penny in their=20 development.
It meant the RAF engineer was forced to circulate his patent = internationally=20 in the hope of finding a private investor.
But the document fell into enemy hands and was used as the blueprint = for=20 Germany's own jet development programme.
If the RAF had backed Whittle ...
read=20 moreStorm=20 Front - Star Trek: Enterprise
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With the crew still reeling from Archer's supposed death while = halting the=20 launch of the Xindi Superweapon, T'Pol and the others determine that = they now=20 have somehow time traveled to the year 1944 during World War II. = However, they=20 also realize that discrepancies loom for the WWII they know and the = current=20 catastrophes taking place on Earth, particularly in the U.S., which = seems to=20 have been invaded by Nazis.
The captain is assaulted by Secret Service agents, including the = sinister=20 Ghrath =E2=80=93 whom Archer suspects is an alien. Unbeknownst to Archer = at the time,=20 Ghrath is a subordinate of Vosk, an alien of Ghrath's race and a leader = in=20 league with the Nazis. Vosk is clearly troubled by Archer's appearance. = With=20 help from insurgents named Sal and Carmine, Archer is rescued from the = agents,=20 and taken to the apartment of Alicia, an African-American woman who soon = ...
read=20 moreDIE=20 GLOCKE
February 26, 2011=E2=80=9CThe following are the salient features of The Bell, =
according to information=20
Cook received from both German and Czech =
sources.
=E2=80=9C(1) The Bell was=20
reportedly a metallic object, approximately 9 feet in diameter and 12 - =
15 feet=20
tall.
=E2=80=9C(2) It looked like a bell; hence, its =
codename to the
Germans, die Glocke.
=E2=80=9C(3) It was comprised of two =
counter-rotating=20
cylinders, rotating a purplish, liquid-metallic-looking substance at =
high speeds=20
that was code-named =E2=80=98Xerum 525=E2=80=99 by the =
Germans.
=E2=80=9C(4) Xerum 525 was=20
apparently highly radioactive, purple in color, and was housed in =
cylinders with=20
lead lining about 30 centimeters (12 inches) =
thick.
=E2=80=9C(5) The Bell=20
apparently required high amounts of electrical power in its=20
operation.
=E2=80=9C(6) During use, it could only be run =
for approximately=20
one to two minutes, as it apparently gave off strong radiation and/or =
other=20
electromagnetic or unknown field effects.
(a) Several =
scientist=20
died on its first operation ...
EMW=20 A12/(I) Rocket
February 24, 2011 =
EMW A12/(I): 3-stage Rocket for cargo-transportation between = continents and=20 in space (Project Peenem=C3=BCnde/Bad Sachsa, 1945)
The A12 design was a true orbital rocket. It was proposed as a = four-stage=20 vehicle, comprising A12, A11, A10 and A9 stages. Calculations suggested = it could=20 place as much as 10 tonnes payload in Low Earth Orbit.
The A12 stage itself would have weighed around 3,500 tonnes fully = fuelled,=20 and would have stood 33 m (108 ft) high. It was to have been propelled = by 50 A10=20 engines, fuelled by liquid oxygen and alcohol
Thrust of first stage: 12800t
Lift capacity: 30.000 kg
Development stage at war end: unknown, CIOS-intel says it was 'beyond = the=20 board', except one drawing no official known original sources left.
Source: Georg, Friedrich: Hitlers Siegeswaffen, Band 2, Teilband B,=20 AMUN-Verlag Schleusingen 2004, p.149 and 219f.
H=20 CLASS BATTLESHIP (1939)
February 15, 2011 = =20 0=20 Comments
The H-39 design was a type of battleship proposed by Nazi Germany = before the=20 outbreak of World War II. This was basically an enlarged version of the = Bismarck=20 class, and was designed as part of the proposed Plan Z fleet.
Design
The Bismarck class
The F - G design, a 35,000-ton battleship program started in 1932, = was laid=20 down before the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935. These would become = the=20 Bismarck class, the largest battleships built by Germany, and the = heaviest=20 battleships in any European navy. Despite this they had a number of = design=20 flaws, which the admirals of the Kriegsmarine were determined to correct = in=20 their next design, the H class. In 1937, Germany's Oberkommando der = Kriegsmarine=20 (OKM) ordered a study for a new battleship class to succeed the Bismarck = design.
Gunnery problems
From the beginning Adolf Hitler insisted on 50.8 cm (20.0 in) guns, = instead=20 ...
HANS=20 ZINSSER
February 15, 2011On a night in October 1944, a German pilot and rocket expert by the = same of=20 Hans Zinsser was flying his Heinkel 111 twin engine bomber in twilight = over=20 northern Germany, close to the Baltic coast in the province of = Mecklenburg. He=20 was flying at twilight to avoid the Allied fighter aircraft that at that = time=20 had all but undisputed mastery of the skies over Germany. Little did he = know that what he saw that night would be locked in the vaults of the = highest=20 classification of the United States government for several decades after = the=20 war. And he certainly could not have been aware of the fact when his = testimony=20 finally was declassified near the end of the millennium, that what he = saw would=20 require the history of the Second World War to be rewritten, or at the = very=20 minimum, severely scrutinized. His observations on that one night on = ...
V-2=20 ROCKET
February 14, 2011
Unlike the V-1, however, the V-2=E2=80=99s supersonic speed and =
ballistic flight=20
profile precluded in-flight intercept, forcing the Allies into an =
expensive=20
bombing campaign to destroy the missiles before they could be launched. =
That=20
effort was further complicated by the V-2=E2=80=99s reliance on a =
mobile, quickly set up=20
launch system. The Western Allies directed hundreds of bomber sorties at =
V-2
production facilities and Germany=E2=80=99s transportation network to =
prevent the=20
missiles from reaching operational units. Hundreds of other =
fighter-bombers=20
conducted low-level sweeps over suspected launch areas to attack V-2 =
units=20
before they fired.
German strategic guided missile, first launched against London on 8 = September=20 1944. Germany=E2=80=99s Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2, or V-2) = had its origins=20 in the Versailles Treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers after = World War=20 I. That agreement prohibited Germany from possessing long-range = artillery or=20 military aircraft, limitations that ultimately led to a = ...
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