German V2 rocket from World War II found in east coast of England
A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England. Royal Navy divers said it was buried vertically with about 1.5m of its tail exposed at low tide.
Bomb disposal teams looked at the rocket at low tide as they try to work out how much more is buried and if it is still dangerous. The discovery of the rocket was reported to Essex Police by a local sailing club.
A Royal Navy diving team arrived at the site on Wednesday evening but could not get near it until Thursday morning.At low tide, the team said, it was about 200m from the shore near Harwich Yacht Club.
Lt Dan Herridge, who was there with the Royal Navy diving team, said: “We coupled our images together with some documents we have and got a second opinion from our technical information centre and were able to confirm it as a section of a V2 rocket.”
The V2, which was used by the Germans from 1944, was 14m long, but until it can be excavated, the bomb disposal teams have no idea how much is left or whether the explosive tip is still attached.
Lt Herridge said: “We've got as deep as we can and have called for more resources to excavate further and ascertain whether there are any aspects of the weapon which pose a danger to public safety.
”It's going to be a logistically demanding job and we've got about an hour either side of low-tide, but there are various options, methods and equipment that we can use to extend that, but that's something we're going to look into.“
The Army's Royal Engineers are expected to join the excavating equipment.
A spokesman for Essex Police said: ”Appropriate action will be taken when bomb disposal experts have finished their excavation”. (BBC).
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schöne grüsse !
Seig Heil, La Campora!
Why?
To use them up against Argentina !
We've got more advanced weapons than that.
[how very silly]
thats like saying argentina could not invade the UK and hold it,
have you intentions of invading, have you//have you// tell the truth now , have you ..lol.
Then I realised the Argie one is so overloaded it can't get further than 100m from the launch pad.
Anybody noticed even the Old Wop' Polycell has gone quiet about his new toy?
Don’t laugh briton you never know. Would be a lot of fun specially if you are entertained heading to SA.
Yes it would be alot of fun, as this is what we have to land troops on argentine beaches after taking out your defense with tomahawk cruise missles, brimstone missles from typhoons etc, and from naval artirally bombardment - www.army.mod.uk/equipment/boats/1540.aspx
This is what you have for landing craft, note you have no navy, no tomahawk missles and no fighters capable of beating our typhoon figthers defending the falklands - t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTISe9nXXmuZ6kbOc4WES5mv8BqmiBKj1GXX9Gd6KvGYd1jt6aM
Whom i wonder how much fun it will be shooting at you whilst your rowing your boat. In fact it bet it would be bloody brilliant fun, so count me in lol
Bring some kebabs with you mate because there are very hard to find here.
Funny stock you are reaaaaaaly.
When you are hopelessly out numbered, out gunned, out planed,
Not enough ships, and thousands of miles away from home, you need a very good imagination,
A bit like what we did in 1982,
.
Ah yes,
lmagination can be a wonderful thing if handled right.
No one could imagine that we could recover our lslands from the invaders in 1982, But we did.
But if imagination is not handled properly.
For example, the Argentines imagine that they have a right to our country!........................fools, can you imagine that?
but most get confused between imagination , and fantasy,
theirs is fantasy .
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