WW2 V2 Missile question

Twin gyroscopes guided the action of its fins (they maintained directional control as it climbed to its apex) and a PIG or a radio command controlled the timing of its descent. For all practical purposes it was a free flight rocket.

Gyroscopic system

I believe it used a gyroscopic system to reach the target, or was it remote-controlled?

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Wikipedia is a single source. As such no different to any other single website or single book. Children and the lazy have always gone to one book, taking the info as read and assumed it is correct. The rise of the internet has not changed this. If one checks multiple sources and uses wikipedia as one of them then its no less reliable than any other single source. Its combined strength/weakness of public authorship and peer review check balance is interesting but it does not automatically make it any less relaible than any other single source.

Of course you’d need to check all of the above before believing it.

The fascinating thing for me about V2/A4 is the way that its guidance gyroscopes were saboutaged by the slave workers at penemunde (very much sp). Whenever I despair for humanity I recall that story.

Al

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Totally agree, i see lots of complaints, but it is a fantastic library.

Apologies if this is in the wrong topic, Can anyone tell me how Hitlers V2 weapons were targeted…..Obviosuley the V1’s were pointed in the general direction , but id be interested to learn how the V2 was guided :confused: The only knowledge i have is that there were four control surfaces at the rear.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2#Technical_details