V-2 Meillerwagen Female Coupling by Uncle T

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My version of the Meillerwagen launch trailer with the V-2 rocket. This version with female coupling.

Info from Wikipedia

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The Meillerwagen (English: Meiller vehicle) was a German World War II trailer used to transport a V-2 rocket from the "transloading point" of the Technical Troop Area to the launching point, to erect the missile on the Brennstand (English: firing stand), and to act as the service gantry for fuelling and launch preparation.

The unofficial "Meillerwagen" name was often used in official documents and refers to a parts supplier for the trailer, Meiller-Kipper GmbH of Munich, Germany.

After the Operation Crossbow bombings that targeted Germay's V-1 and V-2 launch sites, initial plans for launching the V-2 rocket from the massive underground bunkers or from fixed pads were dismissed in favour of mobile launching. Eight main storage dumps were planned and four had been completed by July 1944. The missile could be launched practically anywhere, roads running through forests being a particular favourite.

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OPERATION

• Tow the Meillerwagen to the launch site and point the nose in the desired direction. The ground should be flat and level.
• Deploy the support legs with the button near the base of the left-hand side support leg.
• Lower the supports.
• Release the Transport Lock with the button near the seat. Since actuators are as they are in the game, i.e. seemingly made of rubber when under stress, the lift frame and the rocket will dip down and bounce a bit.
• Raise the rocket on the lift frame with the Raise Rocket button near the base of the rocket on the righ-hand side.
• Once the rocket stops in the vertical position, release the rocket from the lift frame with the Realease Rocket button next to the Raise Rocket button.
• Lower the empty lift frame.
• Secure the lift frame with the transport lock.
• Raise the supports and stow the support legs.
• Move the trailer to a safe location. To be fair standing right next to the launching rocket is perfectly safe in the game, but if you are role-playing moving a few dozen meters should do it. :)
• Sit in the seat on the trailer to launch the rocket as per below.

V-2 ROCKET CONTROLS From the seat on the trailer Alt controls to control the V-2. DO NOT PRESS ALT UNTIL THE ROCKET HAS LAUNCHED SINCE THE AILERONS/RUDDER ARE ATTACHED TO THE FIRING STAND. Fire action 1 / Num 1: Initialise launch sequence. You will see white smoke emanating from the rocket. * Fire action 2 / Num 2: Launch the V-2 rocket. * Up/Down arrows / Mouse: Pitch. Left/Right arrows / Mouse: Roll. A/D: Yaw. Spacebar: Handbrake. Do not forget to release it before towing! Camera 1-3: Rocket cams for aiming in-flight. **

• You can press the Fire action 1 and 2 buttons in any order to fire the rocket but they must both be pressed. To press first 1 then 2 is recommended for the smoke effect to make sense. I made it a two-step system to reduce the risk of an accidental launch before the rocket is in place and released. The V-2 rocket will twist itself 45 degrees upon launch so the ailerons and rudder work as they should (the fins rotate to a + poisiton instead of an x position), and I do not recommend any steering input until this rotation is over. It takes 2 seconds and then the rocket will stabilise itself.

** The range without any steering is about 4,000-4,100 meters in the direction the nose was pointing on the trailer. However if you control the rocket you can make it nose-dive and land at about 1,200 meters or pitch the nose up and prolong the flight path to about 8,000 meters. You can control the rocket turning too for course adjustments, but making many bigger adjustments will make it lose speed.

NOTE! The V-2 was of course not really transported with the firing stand attached, but managing to place that and attaching the rocket correctly on top for launch would be very difficult and probably not that fun to attempt so chose I have it already attached during transport.

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Have fun!