Aggregat 4

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Aggregat 4, better known as the V-2 rocket, was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile developed by Nazi Germany during World War II.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf German military equipment
World War II weapon
ballistic missile
liquid-fueled rocket
alsoKnownAs A4
V-2 rocket
capturedBy Soviet Union
United States
chiefDesigner Wernher von Braun
codename V-2
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
designedBy Walter Dornberger
Wernher von Braun
developedAt Peenemünde Army Research Center
developedBy German Army (Heer)
Nazi Germany
diameter about 1.65 m
enteredService 1944
firstCombatTarget Paris
firstCombatUseDate 8 September 1944
firstSuccessfulTestLaunchDate 3 October 1942
firstSuccessfulTestLaunchSite Peenemünde
fuel 75% ethanol-water mixture
guidanceSystem inertial guidance
influenced postwar Soviet ballistic missile program
postwar United States rocket and space programs
launchMass approximately 12,500 kg
length about 14 m
majorTarget Antwerp
London
manufacturedUsing forced labor from Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
notableFor being the first human-made object to reach the fringes of space
being the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile
operator German Army V-2 units
oxidizer liquid oxygen
postwarUse basis for Soviet R-1 missile
research rocket in the United States
producedAt Mittelwerk underground factory
propellantType liquid oxygen and ethanol
range approximately 320 km
thrust about 25 metric tons at liftoff
usedBy Germany
Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
usedInConflict World War II
VDesignationMeaning Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)
warheadMass approximately 1000 kg
warheadType high-explosive

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
V-2 rocket
alsoKnownAs

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