German Guided Missiles Of World War Ii Fritzx To Wasserfall And X4 Steven J Zaloga by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier instant download after payment.

Besides the anti-ship missiles, the other major category of German missiles were the air-defence missiles. Germany suffered extremely heavy losses from Allied strategic bombing attacks, and German fighter and flak defences proved increasingly unsuccessful. As a result, the Luftwaffe began an extensive programme to deploy several families of new air defence missiles to counter the bomber threat, including the Wasserfall, Schmetterling, and others. This book traces the origins of these missile programmes and examines their development and use in combat. With full-colour illustrations and detailed explorations of the stories behind the missiles, this study offers a comprehensive overview of German guided missiles in the World War II era.World War II German missiles such as the FZG-76 (V-1) and A-4 (V-2) are extremely well known and have been the subject of earlier books in the New Vanguard series.1 This book is intended to round out the survey of wartime German missile efforts by examining the many other missile programs.

Most German missile programs went no further than engineering drawings or simple prototypes, so the focus of this book is on missiles that actually reached combat service or that were approaching production at the time that the war ended in 1945. The two largest categories of these weapons were antiship missiles and antiaircraft missiles.