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The list of weapons under development in Germany includes flying torpedoes (the V1 or Fi-103 FZG.76), explosive rockets (the V2 or A4), continuously submerged submarines (the Schnorchel, today called submarines), jet aircraft (such as the Me-262, the Me-163, the He-162, the He-280, the Arado 234B), rocket-powered aircraft (such as the Me-263), vertical take-off rocket fighters (such as the Natter), remote-controlled rockets (such as the anti-aircraft X4 or the anti-ship Fritz X) and indeed nuclear weapons (never fully developed in Germany and not even realisable in useful time), which would have been coupled with submarines and with an enhanced version of the V2 (A9 and A10), to attack the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Littorio Assault Division was formed, composed of the 33rd Tank Regiment, the 12th Bersaglieri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vg-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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