V-2 rocket

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The V-2 rocket was a German World War II ballistic missile and the world’s first long-range guided rocket weapon, pioneering technologies later used in space exploration.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German military equipment
World War II weapon
ballistic missile
liquid-fueled rocket
long-range guided rocket weapon
alsoKnownAs A4 rocket
linked to: V-2 rocket

Aggregat 4
Vergeltungswaffe 2
linked to: V-2 rocket
associatedCamp Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
causedForcedLaborDeaths around 12,000 concentration camp prisoners
chiefDesigner Wernher von Braun
conflict World War II
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
crossedKarmanLine yes
designedBy Peenemünde research team
Walter Dornberger
developedAt Peenemünde Army Research Center
developedBy German Army
diameter 1.65 m
engineType liquid-fuel rocket engine
enteredSpace yes
explosiveFilling Amatol
firstCombatUseDate 1944-09-08
firstCombatUseLocation London
linked to: London, England

Paris
guidanceSystem inertial guidance
influenced R-1 rocket
Redstone rocket
linked to: V-2 rocket

early space launch vehicles
killedApproximately around 9,000 civilians and military personnel
launchMass approximately 12,500 kg
launchPlatform mobile launch platform
length 14.0 m
manufacturedAt Mittelwerk underground factory
maximumAltitude approximately 80–90 km
maximumRange approximately 320 km
notablePostwarUser Soviet Union
United States
notableTarget Antwerp
London
linked to: London, England
numberBuilt over 3,000
numberLaunchedInCombat over 3,000
partOf V-weapons program
linked to: V-2 rocket
postwarInfluenceOn Soviet rocket program
United States rocket program
productionPeriod 1943–1945
propellantType liquid oxygen and ethanol
stabilization gyroscopic stabilization
technologyPioneered inertial guidance for rockets
large-scale liquid-fuel rocketry
supersonic ballistic flight
thrust approximately 25 metric tons
usedAgainst Belgium
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
usedBy Nazi Germany
usedFor early upper-atmosphere research postwar
warheadMass approximately 1,000 kg
warheadType high-explosive

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Luftwaffe usedWeapon V-2 rocket
V-1 flying bomb programName V-weapons program
linked to: V-2 rocket
V-1 flying bomb successor V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket alsoKnownAs A4 rocket
linked to: V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket alsoKnownAs Vergeltungswaffe 2
linked to: V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket partOf V-weapons program
linked to: V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket influenced Redstone rocket
linked to: V-2 rocket
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production associatedWith V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
Space Race influencedBy German V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
Aggregat 4 alsoKnownAs V-2 rocket
Aggregat 4 codename V-2
linked to: V-2 rocket
Peenemünde Army Research Center notableProject A4 rocket
linked to: V-2 rocket
Wernher von Braun notableWork V-2 rocket
T-Stoff notableUseInMissile V-2 rocket (A4) auxiliary systems
linked to: V-2 rocket
Operation Crossbow mainSubject V-2 rocket
subject linked to: film "Operation Crossbow"
Walter Dornberger notableWork V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
Walter Dornberger notableProject V-2 rocket
R-1 rocket basedOn V-2 rocket
R-1 rocket copyOf V-2 rocket
R-1 rocket precededBy V-2 rocket
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp associatedWith V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
Redstone rocket derivativeOf German V-2 rocket
linked to: V-2 rocket
La Coupole bunker weaponSystem V-2 rocket
R-1 missile basedOn V-2 rocket
R-1 missile developedFrom German V-2 technology
linked to: V-2 rocket
R-2 missile derivedFrom V-2 rocket
Vergeltungswaffe 2 hasAlias V-2 rocket
Arthur Rudolph notableWork V-2 rocket
Operation Paperclip recruitedFrom German V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
The Mars Project influencedBy German V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
Franz Pökler worksOn V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
A3 rocket successor V-2 rocket
A3 rocket influenced V-2 guidance system
linked to: V-2 rocket
A5 rocket precedes V-2 rocket
A-4 rocket alsoKnownAs V-2 rocket
Mittelwerk product Aggregat 4 (V-2) rockets
subject linked to: Kohnstein mountain
linked to: V-2 rocket
Army Ballistic Missile Agency usedTechnologyFrom German V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket