8/4/2023 0 Comments Liquid war 6![]() ![]() At this point there was no way to alter its course and it would be susceptible to drift, side winds, headwinds, and tailwinds – which meant it could fall anywhere within a 25 km radius from its expected target. This would then start the parabolic free-fall back to earth and to its target. The V2 would reach a predetermined velocity in which the guidance system would shut down. The trajectory of the V2 was only controllable during the launch period through the use of two gyroscopes, one for stabilisation and the other for guidance that would steer the four graphite rudders and vanes. Soon after this, the fuel would be exhausted and the V2 would be in free flight and subject to atmospheric conditions. At 30 seconds, the V2 would reach the speed of sound, 1,235 km/h at 60 seconds it reached its peak speed of 5,760 km/h. After that, pressure rose to 25 tons, lift-off would occur soon after, the fuel would burn for a further 60 seconds. This time was used to observe good ignition and look for any obvious faults. While combustion was taking place, the superheated exhaust gases flowed to the nozzle end of the combustion chamber and into the bell-shaped exhaust, where the rapidly expanding gases would produce the extreme thrust of the V2 rocket.Īfter the initial ignition the pressure of thrust would be at 3 tons, which took three seconds. This method of propulsion generated extreme heat, approximately 2,700˚C, inside the combustion chamber, which was cooled by the liquid ethyl alcohol flowing first to the base of the combustion chamber, then through the double-lined walls on its way to the injectors at the top of the chamber (see image 1). The pumps were driven by steam created by two auxiliary fuels, one made of T-Stoff (80% high-test hydrogen peroxide), the other 66% sodium permanganate and 33% water. A mixture of 75% ethyl alcohol and 25% water and liquid oxygen were delivered into a thrust/combustion chamber by two rotary pumps. ![]() ![]() It was powered by a liquid propellant rocket engine of liquid ethanol (which took 30 tons of potatoes to fuel a single launch) and liquid oxygen. It was 17 times more powerful than the largest rocket engine at the time and flew at five times the speed of sound. The final V2 design weighed 12,500 kg, was 14 m in length and 1.65 m in diameter. Developed by Wernher von Braun in 1936, it was developed from his research into liquid fuelled rockets during his time studying at the Technical University of Berlin with the Hungarian-German father of rocketry, Hermann Oberth. This maintenance release includes a setup program for Microsoft Windows (using NSIS), new Win32 binaries compiled with MinGW instead of MSVC, a fix in the core algorithm (a long-standing 9 year old bug this might have caused crashes on some platforms), and various contributed patches concerning support for FreeBSD and Mac OS X.The V2 rocket was the first ballistic guided missile to use advanced rocket technology and to be used in war by the Nazi’s against the Allies.It is distributed as free software (free speech, not beer), under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ). Liquid War is available for DOS, Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and uses Allegro. And I was pleased to hear that Liquid War has been distributed on CD-ROM by a fair number of magazines (essentially in Germany). It and has also been nominated in the games category at the internationnal free software contest "Les trophées du libre" in 2003. It has been ranked "most original Linux Game" by the Linux Game Tome in 2002. A single player mode is available, but the game is definitely designed to be multiplayer, and has network support. ![]() You control an army of liquid and have to try and eat your opponents. Liquid War rules are truely original and have been invented by Thomas Colcombet. Liquid War is a unique multiplayer wargame. ![]()
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