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V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen, were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly strategic bombing and a
V-1 flying bomb
V-2 missile
V-3 cannon
A V-1 is rolled out
V-3 cannon
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The V-3 was a German World War II large-caliber gun working on the multi-charge principle whereby secondary propellant charges are fired to add velocity to a projectile. Two full-size guns were built
V-weapons
…strategic bombing and aerial bombing of cities. They were the V-1, a pulsejet-powered cruise missile; the V-2, a liquid-fueled ballistic missile; and the V-3 cannon. Germany intended to use all of these weapons in a military campaign against Britain, though only the V-1 and V-2 were so used in a campaign conducted…
The prototype V-3 cannon at Laatzig, Germany (now Zalesie, Poland) in 1942.
Remains of V-3 in Zalesie near Międzyzdroje, Wolin Island, Poland (2008)
Accelerating gun (1881) by James Richard Haskell
Accelerating gun by Lyman and Haskell (1883).