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Aggregate 9 (A-9) Aggregate
10 (A-10)Surface-to-Surface Missile
In
Service: First Flight: Manufacturer: Peenemünde
Number built: Type: Surface-to-Surface Missile Guidance system:
Gyroscope Length: 26 m Wingspan: m Diameter:
4.75 m Weight: 100 tons Engine: first stage 1 × liquid
fuel rocket engine producing up to to 30,500 kg of thrust. second stage 1 ×
liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to to 152,500 kg of thrust Maximum
speed: 7,680 km/h Range: 4,800 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 9 (A-9) / Aggregate 10 (A-10) was the last in the Aggregate
series of missile designed and developed by Dr.-Ing. Wernher
von Braun in 1944 under the leadership of Dr. Walter
Robert Dornberger, at Army Research Center Peenemünde.
The Aggregate 9 (A-9) / Aggregate 10 (A-10) was a two-stage intercontinental
ballistic missile (ICBM) which design can be traced back to the early 1940s some
of the people who assisted in the design were Ludwig
Roth, Hermann Oberth, Walter
Thiel. However work resumed in 1944, under the codename of Projekt Amerika.
The Aggregate 9 (A-9) / Aggregate 10 (A-10) was 26 m long by 4.75 m in diameter
and had a take off weight 100 tons and used the following engines first stage
1 × liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to to 30,500 kg of thrust. second
stage 1 × liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to to 152,500 kg of thrust.
Which gave a maximum thrust of 183,500 kg for 50 seconds of burn time
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
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