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29,130. Senator Levin, you and other Democrats in the Congress have voiced fears that you simply don’t have enough for the large increases in defense that the Pentagon is seeking, especially for missile defense. Does this sort of thing convince you that an emergency exists in this country to increase defense spending? (United States & Military & Arms & War on Terror & Missile & Defence) Donald Rumsfeld berating Senator Carl Levin, then Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee, evening of 9/11
25,201. We nicknamed it Dreadnought: it’s a self-guided tactical missile carrying a charge of a thousand kilos of matter and another thousand of anti-matter. (Star Trek & Weapon & Missile) Star Trek: Voyager: Dreadnought 2e17, Chakotay in briefing room
27,277. An alpine fortress stretching into northern Austria … Fear of wonder weapons was understandable. (Nazi & Weapon & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) Nazi Underworld: Nazi Gold, National Geographic 2013
27,280. The old mining tunnels were ideal places to build weapons. (Nazi & Weapon & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,281. The world’s first long-range ballistic missile ... More than a thousand V-2s were fired at Britain … Killed almost three thousand people. (Nazi & Weapon & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
113,957. Eventually von Braun created a masterpiece: the world’s first ballistic missile. (World War II & Weapon & Missile) Secrets of War s1e11: Secret Weapons of the Third Reich
95,451. Somewhere around the world in unknown hands are seventy-four hugely accurate missiles that can bring down a 747. Each one is worth $50,000. (Weapon & Aircraft & Missile) Misha Glenny, McMafia
96,005. I found missile research utterly demoralizing. Partly it was because I was hoping I would soon be joining MI5. But I was not alone in realizing that the missile system was unlikely ever to be built. It was a folly, a monument to British self-delusion. In any case this kind of science was ultimately negative. Why spend a life developing a weapon you hope and pray will never be used. (Nuclear & Bomb & Weapon & Missile) Peter Wright, Spycatcher p26
67,317. Feedback: the magic idea thought up by MIT and Bell Labs for tracking the missile, and then using fancy math to predict from the radar data where the missile is likely to be a few seconds from now. (Civilisation & Missile) James Burke, Connections s3e1: Feedback, 1997
26,770. At about 6.30 p.m. on 8th September Londoners heard a huge double boom. A massive pall rose above Chiswick in west London ... A new revenge weapon: the V-2 rocket. (World War II & London & England & Rocket & Bomb & Missile) Secrets of World War II: The RAF versus the V2 ep17
26,771. Scientists and technicians at Peenemunde pressed ahead with the rocket program. (World War II & Rocket & Bomb & England & Missile) ibid.
26,772. At first Britain’s air defences were stretched to the limit ... Of the 4,000 V1s eventually brought down over southern England about half were brought down by artillery coordinated by radar. (World War II & Rocket & Bomb & Missile & England) ibid.
26,773. The rocket had been designed at the cutting edge of technology. Its gyroscopic guidance system was far in advance of anything in the allied armoury and the electric tort, which drive the motors, was the smallest of its kind. But each V2 cost twenty times more than the V1 for just one ton of explosives. (World War II & Rocket & Bomb & Missile & England) ibid.
26,774. Captured V weapons were displayed in Trafalgar Square. (World War II & Rocket & Bomb & Missile & England & London) ibid.
26,775. The real winner in the story of the V weapons may have been Wernher von Braun. He surrendered to the Americans with his entire research team. (World War II & Rocket & Bomb & Missile & Odessa File) ibid.
26,847. The Germans would fire over 9,500 V1s at southern England during the summer of 1944. (World War II & Bombs & Rockets & Missiles) Stephen Fry, Who Betrayed the Bombers Boys? Yesterday 2013
27,230. We present the first footage of the V-2 missile on its flight to England. For reasons of secrecy it has been filmed from a long distance and offers only a vague idea of the real dimensions of the V-2. (Nazi & Rocket & Bomb & Missile) National Socialist propaganda film 1944
26,888. By the time the V1s reach the capital city, their fuel is used up and their engines die out. Londoners never know where they will fall. Nearly 20,000 of these missiles were launched against England and continental Europe killing 11,000 people. (World War II & Bomb & Missile & Rocket & London & Missiles) World War II: The Apocalypse: Retreat and Surrender aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: Inferno
27,060. The Fuhrer is far-sighted. He knows that the rocket is the weapon of tomorrow. (World War II & Rockets & Bombs & Missile) Operation Crossbow 1965 starring George Peppard & Sophia Loren & Trevor Howard & John Mills & Tom Courtenay & Richard Johnson & Jeremy Kemp & Anthony Quayle & Lilli Palmer & Paul Henreid & Patrick Wymark & Richard Todd et al, director Michael Anderson, Nazi
27,061. London soon will stagger under the impact of 20,000 flying bombs. (World War II & Rockets & Bombs & Missile) ibid.
27,062. The Fuhrer has ordered the total destruction of London. (World War II & Rockets & Bombs & Missile) ibid.
27,269. It was one of the largest projects in the history of mankind. The Third Reich’s bomb-proof factory ... Gigantic underground plants would have kept the supply chain running for the Wehrmacht. Armaments minister Albert Speer had devised the monstrous plan for his Fuhrer. Today only a few may set foot in the remnants of the mammoth project. Hundreds of thousands of slave-labourers hollowed out entire mountains essential to the war effort. (Nazi & Bomb & Rockets & Missile) The Reich Underground: Terror From Below
27,270. Everywhere in the Third Reich the underground construction work was given the highest priority. (Nazi & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,271. It was mostly slave labourers who had to do the dirty work in the tunnels under in-human conditions. (Nazi & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,272. Inside the mountain the Nazis planned to build a total of thirty kilometres of passageways. By the end of the war almost half this distance had been blasted through the rock. (Nazi & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,273. The production seldom ran smoothly. (Nazi & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,274. The prime target of the destructive weapon was London. On September 7th 1944 the first V-2 struck at the heart of the British capital. (Nazi & Bomb & Rocket & London & Missile) ibid.
27,275. Did Churchill know more about Hitler’s plans for the V-3 than is known today? (Nazi & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,277. An alpine fortress stretching into northern Austria … Fear of wonder weapons was understandable. (Nazi & Weapon & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) Nazi Underworld: Nazi Gold, National Geographic 2013
27,280. The old mining tunnels were ideal places to build weapons. (Nazi & Weapon & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,281. The world’s first long-range ballistic missile ... More than a thousand V-2s were fired at Britain … Killed almost three thousand people. (Nazi & Weapon & Bomb & Rocket & Missile) ibid.
27,878. The V-2 turned out to be extremely unreliable. It was Speer’s greatest flop. As useless as the monumental buildings in Berlin and Nuremberg. (Nazi & Rocket & Bomb & Missile) Hitler’s Henchmen: Speer the Architect
94,031. V2 missiles weren't the only superweapon Hitler had pointing at Britain: in great secrecy, three hundred metres below ground ... the finishing touches to another more fearsome threat ... A superbomb built on three levels. (World War II & Bomb & Missiles) What the Dumbusters Did Next, Channel 5 2014
96,005. I found missile research utterly demoralizing. Partly it was because I was hoping I would soon be joining MI5. But I was not alone in realizing that the missile system was unlikely ever to be built. It was a folly, a monument to British self-delusion. In any case this kind of science was ultimately negative. Why spend a life developing a weapon you hope and pray will never be used? (Nuclear & Bomb & Weapon) Peter Wright, Spycatcher p26
117,467. A rocket-powered missile guided to its target by human hands. Japanese suicide aircraft – the Kamikazis – were among the most terrifying weapons of the Pacific war … Balloons loaded with bombs which rode the jet stream across the Pacific … The Japanese balloon bombers were perhaps the strangest secret weapon of the Second World War. (World War II & Missile) Secrets of World War II e18: Japan’s Last Secret Weapon