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RTV-A-2 Hiroc (MX-774)

The RTV-A-2 Hiroc, (High-Altitude Rocket) also known as MX-774 was one of the first rockets developed by the United States Government. Actually preceding the creation of NASA, the Hiroc was more or less the American cousin of the German V-2 rocket, utilizing many of the same technologies, designed by many of the same engineers. However, it wasn't a 1-1 replica, the Hiroc introduced many innovative technological feats, such as integrated fuel tanks, swiveling engines, and a detachable nosecone, just to name a few.

The first thing you will notice of this replica is that it is in fact a bit taller than what it would be compared to kerbals, the reasoning behind this is the fact that 1. KSP handles ultra small things rather poorly and 2. The way KSP handles scaling compared to real life is rather misaligned and makes for true replications a pain to create, however, this is about as good as I can come up with, which comes out to around 1.5x larger than what it would actually be if KSP was at a 1-1 with real life.

This recreation manages to get a good handful of function in though, in regards to its scaling issue. Comes complete with a separable nose cone, 4 swiveling engines in an engine cowling, and an analog to a camera (wonderfully provided by Rokea Inc. and their amazing Spotlight Mk1) though it does lack the control tabs located at the back of the fins.

This is hopefully the first of many highly detailed recreations using a stock game and because this is the first, any and all recommendations, critiques, and feedback is more than welcome, good or bad.

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