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▶ A4 (V2)
Date 1944
Solid-fuel Origin Germany BOMBS
Detonator rocket motor Charge 2,150lb (975kg)
Length 46ft (14.05m)
The A4 was the world’s first ballistic
missile, with a maximum range of
205 miles (330km), which allowed
it to hit London from launch sites
in the Netherlands. Horizontal
and vertical gyroscopes guided
Stabilizing fins the rocket.
Warhead contained 2,205lb AND MISSILES OF W
(1,000kg) of Amatol
high explosive

▲ RUHRSTAHL X-4 AAM The X-4 air-to-air (i.e. aircraft-to-aircraft) ▼ ATOMIC BOMB MK I “Little Boy” was the codename
Date 1944 missile was developed as a “stand-off” weapon, “LITTLE BOY” given to the first nuclear device
to be delivered from outside the range of the used in war. The US Army Air
Origin Germany target aircraft’s guns. Powered by a liquid-fuel Date 1945 Forces dropped it over Hiroshima
Charge 44lb (20kg) rocket, it had a range of up to 2 ⁄2 miles (4km), Origin US (see pp.378–79), in Japan, from
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Length 6 ⁄2ft (2m) and flew at over 683 ⁄2mph (1,100kph). It Charge 15,000 tons TNT equivalent the B-29 Superfortress “Enola
was guided by a wire connecting it to its Length 12 ⁄4ft (3m) Gay” bomber aircraft on August 6, ORLD W
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mother-aircraft. 1945, to devastating effect.
Suspension shackle AR II

Stabilizing fins
Pulse-jet motor

Rocket motor

Stabilizing fins

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Wingspan was 17 ⁄4ft (5.4m)
Suspension shackle
▶ ATOMIC BOMB MK II
“FAT MAN”
Date 1945
Origin US
Charge 21,000 tons TNT equivalent
Length 10 ⁄4ft (3.3m)
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“Fat Man” was the second nuclear
device dropped by the US Army
Air Forces on Japan, this time on
the city of Nagasaki, on August 9,
1945. It was a completely different
design from that of “Little Boy,” using
plutonium in place of uranium.