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...Rocket-line distance from Khartoum toTeheran (on the Persian plateau, Alexander the Great's classic Indian invasion route) is only 1,700 miles. Longest wartime rocket flight was about 200 miles, by a German V2. The V-2 launched in New Mexico last September had a theoretical range of 1,500 miles. Designed, but still dependent on solution of fuel problems, are 3,500-mile rockets. Other rocket-line distances from the African girdle: Khartoum to Suez, 950 miles; Kenya to Moscow, 4,000 miles; Lake Chad to Munich, 2,200 miles; Khartoum to Sofia, 1,800 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: To Darkest Africa | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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