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The first useful rockets were during the second world war, used for artillery into London. So over 80 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket https:
by gridspy 2y ago
The first useful rockets were during the second world war, used for artillery into London. So over 80 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
- hermitcrab 2y agoDepends what you mean by 'useful'. They were a technological marvel, but an incredibly inefficient way to deliver approx a ton of high explosive. But I guess we should be thankful that Hitler wasted so much of Germany's increasingly scarce resources on 'Wunderwaffe' like rockets. The Allies developed technology that was less showy, but much more useful (computers, cavity magnetron, proximity fuze, atom bomb etc).
- nvy 2y agoYeah I was referring to Sputnik, as the V2 wasn't orbital.