V-weapons program

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The V-weapons program was Nazi Germany’s World War II initiative to develop and deploy long-range “vengeance weapons,” including early cruise and ballistic missiles, for strategic bombing of Allied targets.

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V-weapons program canonical 2
German V-2 program 1
German rocket program 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German military program
World War II military program
weapons development program
alsoKnownAs Vengeance weapons program
V-weapons program
surface form: Vergeltungswaffen program
associatedWith Hans Kammler
Walter Dornberger
Wernher von Braun
coordinatedBy German Army
surface form: German Army (Heer)

SS
country Nazi Germany
developedWeapon V-1 flying bomb
V-2 rocket
V-3 cannon
endCause Allied advances into Germany
endTime 1945
historicalSignificance first operational long-range ballistic missile campaign
precursor to postwar missile and space programs
ideologicalJustification vengeance for Allied bombing of German cities
influenced Soviet rocket development
United States rocket development
involvedOrganization Luftwaffe
Organisation Todt
Wehrmacht
keyTechnology inertial guidance
liquid-fueled rocket propulsion
pulsejet engine
mainPurpose retaliation against Allied bombing
strategic bombing of Allied targets
notableSite Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
surface form: Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp

Mittelwerk underground factory
Peenemünde Army Research Center
partOf German rocket program
Nazi secret weapons projects
primaryTarget Antwerp
Liège
London, England
surface form: London
responsibleFor civilian casualties in Belgium
civilian casualties in France
civilian casualties in the Netherlands
civilian casualties in the United Kingdom
startTime 1942
timePeriod World War II
usedForcedLabor yes
weaponType ballistic missile
cruise missile
long-range missile
supergun

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Fieseler Fi 103 partOf V-weapons program
Mittelwerk underground factory partOf V-weapons program
this entity surface form: German rocket program
Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) category V-weapons program
subject surface form: Vergeltungswaffe 2
this entity surface form: V-weapons
V-weapons program alsoKnownAs V-weapons program
this entity surface form: Vergeltungswaffen program
Soviet missile program influencedBy V-weapons program
this entity surface form: German V-2 program
SS General Hans Kammler participantIn V-weapons program
subject surface form: Hans Kammler