Corporal M2: America's Very First Nuclear Guided Missile
The missile played a key role in the development of post-WWII tactical nuclear weapons. Here's What You Need to Know: Corporal was considered “the embryo of the Army missile program.” Six days after the Allies’ D-Day landings on the coast of Normandy in June 1944, Germany retaliated by launching its first Vergeltungswaffe, or Vengeance Weapon, at the city of London. The V-1 was actually a Fie-103 cruise missile designed by Robert Lusser of Fiesler Aircraft. Made from nonessential war materials and covered in sheet metal, the V-1 was powered by a revolutionary Argus As-14 pulse jet eng...
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