Great pics Kai. When you consider that the majority of todays missiles are direct descendants of German missile development in WW2 it reminds you of how advanced some of their thinking was.

I can imagine that, if the development of the ground-to-air missiles was just a little earlier in the war, the Allied bombing campaign against Germany would have turned out quite different.

As for that sub launched missile, I know there were plans for V2's to be launched at sea. If I remember rightly, the V2 was to be launched from it's own shipping container, which was towed by a sub to the launch point. It was towed horizontal and when in place the container was flooded so that it stood upright, then it was fired by operators on the sub. I think the idea was that these V2's would be towed across the Atlantic to the US coast and then fired at places like New York etc.

But I can imagine with all their other missile projects someone would have suggested mounting surface-to-air rockets on some of the bigger subs, like the Milch Cows or maybe the type XXI, for AA defence.

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"We have invaded space with our rocket and for the first time - mark this well - have used space as a bridge between two points on the earth; we have proved rocket propulsion practicable for space travel. This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era of transportation, that of space travel." - General Walter Dornberger