V2 launch from aircraft carrier

[longlivetaiwan]

Operation Sandy was a limited success as the rocket broke up some six miles after the launch. In the below picture of the launch you can notice the almost immediate tilt of the rocket. Further land based tests illustrated the catastrophic consequences that ten tons of ethanol, liquid oxygen and possibly nuclear warhead could have on the deck of a wooden aircraft carrier and further tests taken in a different direction. The operation however did lead to further exploration in the field of naval ballistic missiles and by 1960 the UGM-27 Polaris Missile was fielded. The Polaris was ten feet shorter than the V2 but was 8,000 pounds heavier and carried a nuclear war head to nearly a thousand miles. Today an arsenal of even more advanced Trident missiles is carried by fourteen active US Ohio class submarines and four British Vanguard class submarines.


In September 1947 the USN test launched a V2 rocket from the deck of USS Midway - in the days before 'risk assessment.' p-)

Operation Sandy (http://www.midwaysailor.com/midway1940/sandynewsreel.wmv)

USSMidway (http://www.midwaysailor.com/midway1940/opsandy.html)

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/martensimmelsgaard/vid/V2.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/v/rvjX9pvM37o&hl=en&fs=1

[drakegoodman]

Now that was interesting, thanks for postin'.

[Andy S]

Must have been fun though!

[congofal]

The Germans had planned to launch V2 rockets from special containers that where to be towed behind a U-boat to within a few miles of the US East coast , the container would then be flooded to a Vertical position , the rocket would be fueled then launched , the container would then be flooded and sunk , the U-boat was then able to return home.
Test where carried out and a launch was made in 1945 , but ti was to late to implement the plan.
Besides the US NAVY owned the seas by this time and the U-boat would have sunk while it was trying to fuel up the V2 .