Rocket U-Boat (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Rocket U-boat was an abandoned military project to create the first ballistic missile submarine. It was conceived of by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Plans for the rocket U-boat involved an attack on New York City with Germany's newly-invented V-2 rockets. The Second World War saw the birth of the world's first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket. An idea was proposed to use a submarine as a launch pad for these missiles, which would theoretically give the weapon enough range to strike at any city in the world within 320 km of a coastline. Indeed, the Third Reich had planned to attack New York City using the rocket U-boat.