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    V-2 rocket (redirect from V2-missile)
    The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Retaliation Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic...
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  • Look up V2 or V-2 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The V-2 rocket was a German early ballistic missile of World War II. V2 or V-2 may also refer to:...
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    Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-77650-X. Reuter, Claus (2000), The V2 and the German, Russian...
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    started the Soviet missile and rocket program that soon absorbed the German missile industry. Malenkov supervised takeover of German V2 missile industry that...
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    Tomahawk (/ˈtɒməhɔːk/) Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is a long-range, all-weather, jet-powered, subsonic cruise missile that is primarily used by the United...
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    V2". The National Archives. "Missile, Surface-to-Surface, V-2 (A-4)". National Air and Space Museum. April 1, 2016. Siouris, George (2006). Missile Guidance...
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  • the Regulus missile program, which began about a decade after World War II. During World War II, German researchers developed the A4 (V2), the first ballistic...
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  • development of nuclear weapons, followed by Rocket Technology, such as the V2 Missile ('Retaliation Weapon 2') and the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Expertise...
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    threat of Luftwaffe bombing had ended, the CH systems were used to detect V2 missile launches. UK radar systems were wound down after the war but the start...
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    a V2 in the assembly hall at Éperleques. The British idea of an underground missile silo was adopted and developed by the United States for missile launch...
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  • designations List of missiles Fiesler Fi103 (V1) - Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford (UK) Archived 2004-01-30 at the Wayback Machine V2 (Assembly 4) - Royal...
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    Peenemünde near the Baltic Sea... heading up the team that developed the V2 missile (IEEE Global History Network Retrieved 1-4-09) * Human Exploration of...
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    com/s3fs-public/publication/Williams_MissileWarYemen_WEB_FINAL_v2.pdf Familiarity with the coordinates of Iranian "Tosan" and "Thunder" missiles defapress.ir, Retrieved...
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    V-1 flying bomb (redirect from V1 missile)
    (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi...
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  • List of V-2 test launches (category V-2 missile launch sites)
    the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press. pp. 158, 160–162, 190. ISBN 978-0-02-922895-1. Dornberger, Walter (1954) [1952 V2--Der Schuss ins...
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    the Missile:The Secrets of Peenemünde. Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling Verlag. pp. 44, 65, 66, 78, 109, 117, 125. Dornberger, Walter (1954) [1952]. V2- Der...
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    World War II she toured the United Kingdom. She was on a visit when a V2 missile damaged her Hampton Court apartment in 1944. As soon as she could after...
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    Particular Baptists and extended in 1884. The church was damaged by a German V2 missile in 1945. The building is now used as a church hall and a new Baptist church...
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    MZKT (section Volat V2)
    China, are based on MZKT designs; the WS2400 is based on the MAZ-543. Volat V2 APC (MZKT-690003) with 2A42 30mm autocannon and other weaponry was first presented...
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  • in the Peenemünde raid on the research and development centre for the V2 missile. 576 Squadron took part in the raid on Hitler's hideout at Berchtesgaden...
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    the V-1, a pulsejet-powered cruise missile; the V-2, a liquid-fueled ballistic missile (often referred to as V1 and V2); and the V-3 cannon. Germany intended...
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  • the original sound of the German WWII flying-bomb, the V1 (the ‘V2', a ballistic missile, sound was never recorded) getting close, then the engine stops...
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    these [hypersonic] weapons in response to the US deployment of a strategic missile defense system, which in the future would be capable of virtually neutralizing...
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  • USS District of Columbia (category Ballistic missile submarines)
    be the lead boat of the United States Navy's Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and the Navy's first vessel to be named for the District of...
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    The 1st Strategic Missiles Groupment (French: 1er Groupement de Missiles Stratégiques, 1er GMS) is a former unit of the Strategic Air Forces of the French...
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    Blizna, Subcarpathian Voivodeship (category V-2 missile launch sites)
    and personally visited the test missile impact areas to troubleshoot any problems discovered during trials. The missile testing ground at Blizna was quickly...
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  • and experimental SG-66 guidance system of the Nazi era German V2 (EMW A4) ballistic missile and was known among the German rocket scientists as the MMIA...
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  • V2. Escape from Hell (Russian: Девятаев, romanized: Devyatayev) is a 2021 Russian prison action thriller war biopic film directed by Timur Bekmambetov...
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    Diamant (category Rockets and missiles)
    ballistic missiles programmes. The agency initially conducted relatively straightforward and cost-conscious programmes, such as the development of the V2-based...
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    and control system for the A3 test rocket, the A5, and the A4 (V2) ballistic missile. Under Project Paperclip, Mueller emigrated to the United States...
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