Putʹ k "bolʹshoĭ rakete": 1931-1944 gg
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translation: The path to the "big rocket": 1931-1944
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In the 19th century, the armed forces of many countries in Europe and Latin America widely used rockets with powder engines. But the spread of rifled breech-loading artillery pieces excluded combat missiles from the arsenal of warfare for a long time. After the First World War, a fundamentally new stage in the history of rocket science began. The impetus for this was the transition from powder engines to liquid engines, which have a colossal energy potential.
The main line of this book is to consider the path along which German designers, starting in 1931 with the tiny HW-1 of Josef Winkler and Mirak-1 of Rudolf Nebel, flying no higher than 60 meters, in 13 years came to the huge rocket "Unit-4 » Wernher von Braun, who in 1944 crossed the border of near space at supersonic speed.
