Sep 222009
One of the first ‘modern” anti-aircraft rockets was the German “Wasserfall.” Designed by the same merry band of rocket scientists who created the V-2, the Wasserfall was essentially a scaled-down V-2 with a propellant change (storable hypergolics rather than cryogenic LOX) and cruciform stabilizers up front. Wasserfall (“Waterfall”) was designed to home in on radar beams reflected off of target aircraft… a system that proved quite popular for many decades after WWII, up to the present day.
One of the Space Drawings I’ve recently released is Zeichnung (Drawing) SKW 970 B, dated January 23, 1945, illustrating in detail one of the Wasserfall designs. You can see more on it here.
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