What+sort+of+weapons+did+the+Nazis+use?

The Nazis were known for their various sorts of weapons and their weapon advancements. They had invented different missiles, tanks, submarines, guns, and other amazing weapons. The Nazis had made the V-2 missile, which was the first ballistic missile and the precursor to all other missiles. They had a nearly unstoppable tank force composed with different versions of their Panzer tanks, from 1 through 5. They also had a destructive submarine force which luckily wasn’t produced enough to allow the Nazis to win.

The V-2 missile was a large ballistic missile, and was the first ballistic missile. It was part of Hitler’s “Wunderwaffen”, or wonder weapons. It was a large military program making extremely advanced weapons, much more superior than any other Ally weapon. This was one of the greater success stories from the program, considering a few thousand were produced and launched all over Europe. This missile was also the first manmade item to achieve suborbital space flight. This basically means that it went into space, but only for a short time. This also meant they came down on their targets from space. They came so fast there was no warning or alert about the missile strike. There were four major advancements made by the V-2 rocket. They engine was much more efficient in producing thrust to lift the rocket into space. It had an advanced combustion chamber with nozzles to spray fuel. “ These nozzles sprayed the fuel out in a rotational pattern that caused it to atomize better (in other words, create very small fuel droplets that had more surface area, like the water coming out of a spray bottle) so that it mixed better with the oxidizer and therefore burned more efficiently” (  Day  ). As Day said, this engine was able to make the fuel be used more efficiently to produce better results. It also had advanced guidance systems, which made it more accurate, though it rarely could hit dead on and radio transmissions to document the terrible destruction. It had new aerodynamics to achieve these speeds and not get destroyed. The Nazi's modeled it after a rifle bullet, because it was accurate and wouldn't get destroyed a such speeds. (Day )

V-2 Missile ("Icons Of Invention - Technology - 1939 - 1968 )  The Panzer tank was a basic tank model, but had 5 different variations on the same model. The original Panzer 1 was a small, light tank that carried out very few missions in WWII. The Panzer II was a slightly larger and more used tank. The tank size went up with the numbers, up to the Panzer V, or the Panther. Though individually the tanks were only tanks, they were used in more advanced ways in their terms of tactics and in tandem with the Blitzkrieg. The tanks provided tons of fire support to the infantry troops and helped Germany advance so far throughout Europe. ("German tanks in WW2, Panzer")

The Nazis also had some submarines, which could have been much more of a threat if they had decided to produce and equip much more of them. The lack of a larger force was one of the reasons that the Nazis couldn’t do as much damage. The submarines, otherwise known as U-boats were powerful from the ability to attack underwater, as well as on top of the water. The U-boats used the wolf pack tactic to become more efficient and stronger in the water. ("World War 2 Submarines").

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By: Alex Kangas