Like the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket, the V-3 cannon (given the cover name Hochdruckpumpe ("High Pressure Pump") in German) was one of the three "reprisal weapons" (German: Vergeltungswaffen) planned by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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