V-2 rocket | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 10/05/2019

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00:02:37 1 Developmental history
00:07:19 2 Technical details
00:15:10 2.1 Testing
00:18:07 2.1.1 Air burst problem
00:19:41 3 Production
00:20:30 4 Launch sites
00:22:04 5 Operational history
00:29:20 5.1 Possible use during Operation iBodenplatte/i
00:30:15 5.2 Tactical use
00:31:25 5.3 Final use
00:32:13 5.4 Post-war history
00:32:47 6 Countermeasures
00:32:57 6.1 Big Ben and Crossbow
00:34:40 6.2 Anti-aircraft gun system
00:38:07 6.3 Direct attack
00:39:55 7 Assessment
00:42:45 8 Unfulfilled plans
00:44:52 9 Post-war use
00:45:49 9.1 Britain
00:46:53 9.2 United States
00:50:22 9.3 USSR
00:51:59 10 Surviving V-2 examples and components
00:52:19 10.1 Australia
00:53:00 10.2 Netherlands
00:53:29 10.3 Poland
00:54:07 10.4 France
00:55:10 10.5 Germany
00:56:05 10.6 United Kingdom
00:57:47 10.7 United States
00:59:58 11 See also



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The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a "vengeance weapon", assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first man-made object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.Research into military use of long range rockets began when the studies of graduate student Wernher von Braun attracted the attention of the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated in the A-4, which went to war as the V-2. Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, and a further 12,000 forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners died as a result of their forced participation in the production of the weapons.As Germany collapsed, teams from the Allied forces—the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—raced to capture key German manufacturing sites and technology. Wernher von Braun and over 100 key V-2 personnel surrendered to the Americans. Eventually, many of the original V-2 team ended up working at the Redstone Arsenal. The US also captured enough V-2 hardware to build approximately 80 of the missiles. The Soviets gained possession of the V-2 manufacturing facilities after the war, re-established V-2 production, and moved it to the Soviet Union.