Weiner von Braun was born in Germany in 1912. His mother was an outstanding amateur astronomy enthusiast. Under his mother's influence, Braun entered the field of aerospace.

In 1932, he graduated from the Charlottenburg Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering.

In 1934, the A-2 rocket was developed and successfully tested the rocket at a test site near Cummersdorf.

In 1936, he led the design of the A-4 rocket project, a missile later named V-2.

Throughout World War II, he was a famous German rocket expert and played a key role in the birth of the V-1 and V-2 Rockets.

After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union obtained German rocket data, and Braun and his scientific research team surrendered to the United States, and the two countries each started new space programs based on Germany.

Braun became the father of space in the United States. Almost all space programs in the United States were led by Braun, such as the famous Apollo moon landing program and the American space shuttle, which also had Braun's contribution. Now, Braun has entered the state earlier than in history.

In Europe, it is difficult to find a suitable launch site, but in the vast Libyan desert, it is easier to study rockets!

It was already dawn. It was the second day after Hitler came to Libya. It was near the base and he watched Braun's experiment with great interest.

Last night, Braun did not explain too much to Hitler. Anyway, Hitler didn't know so much professional knowledge at all. Instead, Cialick, a general who was originally not involved in aerospace, inspired Braun deeply.

Now, Braun has completed all the development of the V-2 Rockets!

The most important thing in developing a missile is the engine! Braun’s missile engine was designed by him personally. This engine is almost one person tall, while the entire missile looks quite smooth, 14 meters tall.

Standing on the launch pad is the missile that Braun is going to test-fire this time. At this time, the crane arm next to him was busy, and someone was filling the rockets with fuel.

"Our rockets use alcohol and liquid oxygen," Braun said. "There are specialized workshops for making alcohol and liquid oxygen at the base here."

The base is very large and has been developing continuously over the years. Now, almost half of the bases are Rockets' workshops.

"Dr. Braun, I don't know if you have ever thought about it. The combination of alcohol and liquid oxygen is actually not very suitable for Rockets." Cialek couldn't help but say from the side.

Last night, Braun introduced that this rocket weighs fourteen tons, including 5 tons of liquid oxygen and 3.5 tons of alcohol. It can produce 260 kilograms of thrust, with a maximum range of 320 kilometers, a flight time of about 320 seconds, and a hit accuracy of 5,000 meters.

This kind of rocket is already quite advanced. It can be said that it has reached the historical level of V-2 missiles a few years in advance. However, Cialis has now raised a very sharp problem, and the propellant is not suitable!

First of all, it is the problem of liquid oxygen, which needs to be stored at low temperature! Storage at minus 183 degrees is the biggest problem when using it.

Now, just filling liquid oxygen, you can see that there is a thick layer of frost on the outside of the filling tube. At the same time, the filling personnel are also very dangerous.

On the other hand, the cost of alcohol is very low, but the energy of this thing burns is low. Looking at the later generations, there is almost no alcohol used as fuel.

If you use liquid oxygen, then just add liquid hydrogen and directly use liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engines. This is only used in the highest stage of the rocket, with the highest specific pulse and the most technical difficulty.

The next level, the more commonly used one is the liquid oxygen kerosene engine. Unfortunately, the difficulty of this thing is not ordinary. Only the Russians have conquered it. It will be many years later.

So, we need to find more commonly used ones.

What fuel?

Of course, it is dimethylhydrazine, nitrous oxide, or nitric acid!

Although dimethylhydrazine is highly toxic and carcinogenic, it can be stored at room temperature. Together with nitrous oxide, it is common fuel for rockets in later generations! Once the two are in contact, they can be caught without ignition, and they can be caught directly!

So, when Braun asked for advice on what was more appropriate, Cialick of course directly stated this common plan.

"No need to store at low temperatures, just wear a gas mask when filling. I think my plan should be more suitable. If you think it is feasible, you might as well try it." Cialek said.

In fact, Braun also felt that the liquid oxygen solution was not suitable. The preparations for this rocket before each launch are not only dangerous, but also very complicated. If there is room temperature propellant, it would be much easier. However, he has not thought about this aspect.

Dimethylhydrazine, nitrous tetraoxide? Well, it seems that it can be the focus of the next aspect.

"In addition to the engine, another focus of improvement is the inertial navigation system." Cialick continued: "Our domestic electronic technology is constantly improving, using our advanced electronic technology to transform our inertial navigation system to give higher accuracy of this missile."

Historically, Hitler attached great importance to V-2 missiles, which was simply a killer tailor-made for Britain. During World War II, Germany fired thousands of V-2 missiles at Britain, of which only more than 70% landed within 30 kilometers around the target, and about 40% landed within a range of 10 kilometers.

What is this concept? Almost nothing can hit the target! So, although Germany looks aggressive, in fact, this missile is not very useful, the main reason is that its accuracy is too poor!

Unless it is equipped with a nuclear warhead, it can only be a threat. Of course, in a sense, it has achieved this effect. Britain has no choice but to do anything to this kind of missile and they cannot intercept it.

This led to the situation where countries were frantically developing missiles after World War II.

Improve accuracy! Make this missile truly valuable!

Braun agrees with Cialick's proposal quite well, Cialick is right!

"The bet is completed and you can launch!" At this moment, an assistant said.

At this time, there are not so many programs. Start the gyro and the target data was set before. Now, you can ignite it!

ignition!

As Braun issued an order, the bottom of the black missile emitted a fierce flame!

The turbine bulged the fuel and oxidizer into the engine inside and ignited it. The high temperature of more than 2,000 degrees gushed out from behind!
Chapter completed!