![]() 11 Surviving V-2 examples and components.According to a BBC documentary in 2011, the attacks resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, while 12,000 forced labourers and concentration camp prisoners were killed producing the weapons. īeginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched as military rockets by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp and Liège. ![]() The weapon was presented by Nazi propaganda as a retaliation for the bombers that attacked ever more German cities from 1942 until Germany surrendered. During the aftermath of World War II the American, Soviet and British governments all gained access to the V-2's technical designs as well as the actual German scientists responsible for creating the rockets, via Operation Paperclip, Operation Osoaviakhim and Operation Backfire respectively. It was the progenitor of all modern rockets, including those used by the United States and Soviet Union's space programs. ![]() The V-2 (German language: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Vengeance Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was a short-range ballistic missile that was developed during the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp.Ĭommonly referred to as the V-2 rocket, the liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known human artifact to enter outer space. ![]()
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