Editing V-2 rocket (section)

== Unfulfilled plans ==
A submarine-towed launch platform was tested successfully, making it the prototype for [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]]s. The project codename was {{Lang|de|Prüfstand XII}} ("Test stand XII"), sometimes termed the [[rocket U-boat]]. If deployed, it would have allowed a [[U-boat]] to launch V-2 missiles against United States cities, though only with considerable effort (and limited effect).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uboataces.com/articles-rocket-uboat.shtml |title=Hitler's Rocket U-boat Program – history of WW2 rocket submarine |publisher=Uboataces.com |access-date=27 April 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403090456/http://www.uboataces.com/articles-rocket-uboat.shtml |archive-date=3 April 2010 }}</ref> Hitler, in July 1944 and Speer, in January 1945, made speeches alluding to the scheme,<ref>Article in San Diego Times c.25 July 1944</ref> though Germany did not possess the capability to fulfill these threats. These schemes were met by the Americans with [[Operation Teardrop]].{{Citation needed|date = July 2016}}

While interned after the war by the British at [[CSDIC]] camp 11, Dornberger was recorded saying that he had begged the Führer to stop the V-weapon propaganda, because nothing more could be expected from one ton of explosive. To this Hitler had replied that ''Dornberger'' might not expect more, but ''he'' (Hitler) certainly did.{{Citation needed|date = July 2016}}

According to decrypted messages from the Japanese embassy in Germany, twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan.<ref>Besant, John ''Stalin's Silver'' concerning the sinking of [[SS John Barry|SS ''John Barry'']] near [[Aden]] in 1944</ref> These left [[Bordeaux]] in August 1944 on the transport U-boats {{GS|U-219||2}} and {{GS|U-195||2}}, which reached [[Jakarta]] in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a passenger on ''{{GS|U-234||2}}'', bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown.{{Citation needed|date = July 2016}}