V-2 rocket - Wikipedia
WEBV-2 rocket. The V2 (‹See Tfd› German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and ...
V-2 rocket | History, Inventor, & Facts | Britannica
WEBV-2 rocket, German ballistic missile of World War II, the forerunner of modern space rockets and long-range missiles. Developed in Germany from 1936 through the efforts of scientists led by Wernher von Braun, it was first successfully launched on October 3, 1942, and was fired against Paris on September 6, 1944.
V2 rocket: Origin, history and spaceflight legacy | Space
WEBMar 29, 2022 · The V2 rocket was the world's first large-scale liquid-propellant rocket, developed between 1936 and 1942 in Nazi Germany. It is regarded as a revolutionary breakthrough in rocket technology,...
V-2 Missile | National Air and Space Museum
WEBThe V-2 rocket, developed and used by the Germans during World War II, was the world's first large-scale liquid-propellant rocket vehicle, the first modern long-range ballistic missile, and the ancestor of today's large-scale liquid-fuel rockets and launch vehicles.
V-2 - Encyclopedia Astronautica
WEBAug 2, 2016 · The V-2 ballistic missile (known to its designers as the A4) was the world's first operational liquid fuel rocket. It represented an enormous quantum leap in technology, financed by Nazi Germany in a huge development program that cost at least $ 2 billion in 1944 dollars. 6,084 V-2 missiles were built, 95% of them by 20,000 slave laborers in ...
V-weapons - Wikipedia
WEBAs early as 28 June 1940, a strategic bombing rationale had been advanced for the A4 (V-2 rocket) being developed at a meeting between Army Ordnance Chief Emil Leeb and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, Walther von Brauchitsch. [5]
Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBThe Air and Space Museum’s V-2 was assembled from parts of several actual rockets. Looking up at it is not unlike looking up at a skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex: each is a genuine artifact...
Wernher Von Braun and The History of the V-2 Rocket
WEBNov 7, 2020 · The V-2 rocket traces its origins to Germany, the World Wars and a brilliant young engineer named Wernher von Braun who first invented the V-4 rocket.
V2: The Nazi rocket that launched the space age - BBC
WEBAt the heart of the V2 was a powerful motor capable of taking the rocket more than 80km (50 miles) above the Earth in a trajectory of some 190 km (120 miles). Fuelled by liquid ethanol and...
V-2 Rocket Story
WEBOn October 3, 1942, the first successful launch of a V-2 rocket was achieved from the Peenemünde test site. Hitler ordered the V-2 missiles into full-scale production at Peenemünde. But before the large production plants could be completed, the German missile program experienced a major blow.