PGM-11 Redstone
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The PGM-11 Redstone was the first large American ballistic missile. A short-range ballistic missile, it was in active service with the United States Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 as
Redstone No. CC-56, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 17 September 1958
US Army field group erecting Redstone missile.
Redstone early production (1953)
Preparations on 16 May 1958 for the first Redstone launch on 17 May conducted by US Army troops. Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion, 40th Artillery Group (Redstone); Cape Canaveral, Florida; Launch Complex 5
V-2 rocket
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The V-2 rocket, with the development name Aggregat-4, was the world's first practical, modern ballistic missile and suborbital launch vehicle. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine
PGM-11 Redstone
…US missile to carry a live nuclear warhead, in the 1958 Pacific Ocean weapons test Hardtack Teak. The Redstone was a direct descendant of the German V-2 rocket, developed primarily by a team of German rocket engineers brought to the United States after World War II. The design used an upgraded engine from…
Peenemünde Museum replica of V2
Wernher von Braun at Peenemünde Army Research Center
Wind tunnel model of an A4 in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin
Layout of a V2 rocket