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The V2 (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 assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...
Rocket number Date Burning time (s) Range (km) Pad Remarks 1942: V-1 18 March, [1]: 160 1942 0 Tower The first A-4 flight-test model was completed 25 February 1942, [2] but slipped out of its "corset" after being fully tanked at Test Stand VII, fell 2 meters, smashed three fins, and came to rest on the rim of the engine nozzle.
Sold for: $1.3 million A rare 1979 Kenner Rocket-Firing Boba Fett action figure recently sold at auction for an eye-popping $1.3 million, becoming the most expensive toy ever sold.
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 ... Kharkiv model V-2, ...
The Meillerwagen (English: Meiller vehicle) was a German World War II trailer used to transport a V-2 rocket from the 'transloading point' [1] [a] of the Technical Troop Area to the launching point, to erect the missile on the Brennstand (English: firing stand), [b] and to act as the service gantry for fuelling and launch preparation.
MW 18014 was a German A-4 test rocket [nb 1] launched on 20 June 1944, [1] [2] [3] at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde.It was the first human-made object to reach outer space, attaining an apogee of 176 kilometres (109 mi), well above the Kármán line that was established later as the lowest altitude of space. [4]
The V-2 No. 13 [1] was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Launched on 24 October 1946, [ 4 ] at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico , the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 miles (105 km).
[5] [8] [11] The main rocket testing, training, and launch site was transferred to Blizna in southeast Poland, outside of the range of Allied bombers. [5] [8] An SS military base near Blizna was set up on 5 November 1943, from which 139 A4 (also known as V-2) rockets were launched for experimental purposes and for training.