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The V-2 rocket was a German early ballistic missile of World War II. V2 or V-2 may also refer to: Vehicles, craft, and ships * Soviet submarine V-2 * USS V-2, a 1924 Barracuda-class submarine of the United States Navy * ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2), an aircraft carrier in the Argentine Navy from 1969 to 1997 * Culver V-2, a two-seat cabin monoplane * Fokker V.2, a German fighter aircraft prototype * MIT EAD Airframe Version 2, the first ion wind airplane * Voyager 2 spacecraft * Dragon V2, a commercial spacecraft being developed for astronaut crew transport * LNER Class V2, a British railway steam locomotive class * NER Class V2, a class of British steam locomotives (later redesignated class Z) Engines * Curtiss V-2, an American eight-cylinder aircraft engine * Kharkiv model V-2, a Soviet twelve-cylinder tank engine * V-twin engine, a two-cylinder engine Biology * V2 receptor, a protein that acts as receptor for arginine vasopressin * Maxillary nerve, (V2), the second division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-2 Rocket
The V-2 (german: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit=Retaliation Weapon 2), with the technical name ''Aggregat 4'' (A-4), was the world’s first long-range 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 assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities. The rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line (edge of space) with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. Research into military use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun attracted the attention of the Wehrmacht. A series of prototypes culminated in the A-4, which went to war as the . Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 were launched by the Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
