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Shattered World - Segment 54.2 September 2nd 1949 to September 7th 1949 September 2nd 1949 Germany scales up mass production of its latest road and rail mobile ballistic missile system, the A-4f. This weapon is accurate to within half a kilometer out to 500 kilometers and to within a kilometer at 1200 kilometer range. This model is to replace earlier iterations of the A-4 as it is cheaper to build and easier to operate. It may be configured with a conventional 2000 pound warhead or a chemical/biological warhead. Another project, labelled as the A-6 , is a specialized variant of the multi-staged A-5(itself still in development) intended to place a small satellite into orbit. This missile is to be tested sometime in 1950. By comparison, the best British and American ballistic missiles have ranges out to 800 kilometers and accuracies to within 2 or 3 ki...