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Originally Posted by edwest
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There's apparent disagreement between (a) the NYT article you quote and (b) the document you link to which says that the programme was abandoned after relatively few prototypes had been launched. This page gives quite a lot of detail on the test results:
http://www.luft46.com/missile/wasserfl.html. Whether any of the tests were against a real target, who knows?
In "German Aircraft of the Second World War" by J.R. Smith, A.L. Kay and E.J. Creek (Putnam, 1972, ISBN 0 370 00024 2) they say that "about 35" were launched in trials and that production was due to begin in October 1945.
As you once posted here long ago, another rocket, the
Flakwerfer 44
Föhngerät, was deployed operationally (e.g. at Remagen) but that was a small-calibre weapon, not a big liquid-fuelled missile. Smith, Kay and Creek mention that 600 rounds of the unguided EMW
Taifun were completed but there was no information about any use.