Rockets
A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. 'bobbin/spool') is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket. Rocket engines work by action and reaction and push rockets forward simply by expelling their exhaust in the opposite direction at high speed, and can therefore work in the vacuum of space. In fact, rockets work more efficiently in space than in an atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore can achieve unlimited maximum altitude. Compared with airbreathing engines, rockets …
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UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English
By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …
confirmation was forthcoming, rumors abounded: rockets were widely and correctly identified as the cause …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Bulgarian
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the internal political situation in Bulgaria. The documents cover meetings of the Bulgarian Central Committee and National Assembly concerning a new labour code, …
" and "but for you, Soviet Union, the cruise rockets would have been launched!" &" Peace is a dove …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
INTENTION TO j STATION HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN ROCKETS ON WEST GERMAN S O I L . ONLY THE EXTENSION OF …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file of correspondence and reports concerning inner-German relations. The documents cover statements on foreign policy issued by the governments of East Germany and West Germany; a speech by the …
detente rather than confrontation, embargoes, new rockets and a striving for military superiority. If the … flourish in the shadow of new American nuclear rockets. The article ended with an expression of readiness …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to anniversaries and commemorations in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include plans for the sixtieth anniversary of the Soviet Union; analysis of …
EUROPE OF " HUNDREDS OF NEW AMERICAN NUCLEAR ROCKETS " OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS , THE S O V I E T … decisively" against the st' tioning of new American rockets in Western Europe, and the pe ce partisans (:To …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
ATTACKED BAZAAR AREA OF PAGHMAN TOWN WITH ROCKETS AND BOMBS. T H I S WAS THOUGHT TO BE IN R E …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
of tension here was the deployment of nuclear rockets. The West, by its refusal to include all European …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to Soviet influence in the Caribbean and Latin America. The principal subject covered in the file is the situation in Grenada. Aspects of this subject …
is hardly tank country), 4 or 5 inch mortars, rockets and armoured personnel,carriers. After filtering …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents concerning relations between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries. Subjects covered in the file include the changing nature of the Romanian-Soviet relationship, influenced by …
THE INTENTION TO STATION HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN ROCKETS ON WEST GERMAN SOIL. ONLY THE EXTENSION OF PEACEFUL …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
THEY WERE ATTACKED WITH HEAVY ARTILLERY, BM-21 ROCKETS AND MORTAR F I R E , FOLLOWED BY TANK ASSAULTS …
