Unit 12

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Unit 12 (A12 for short) was the name of a German rocket project in World War II and a rocket stage . The unit 12 should form a space transporter as a starting stage in connection with the unit 11 and the unit 10 , which should bring up to 10 tons into the near-earth orbit and should have wings . The project did not get beyond mind games. The entire multi-stage space transporter should have a launch mass of 3500 tons, a launch thrust of 10,000,000 kgf , a diameter of 11 m and a wingspan of 23 m.

With a length of 33 m, the unit 12 as the launch stage would have roughly corresponded to the launch stage of the Saturn rocket .

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