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[[File:V-2 rocket.jpg|thumb|300px|Unlike the [[V-1 flying bomb]], the V-2's speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea level (approximately 3,550 km/h [2,206 mph]).]]
The [[German]] '''V-2 rocket''' ({{lang-de|Vergeltungswaffe 2}}, "Retribution Weapon 2", officially ''Aggregat 4'' or A-4) was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The V-2 rocket also became the first man-made object to travel into space. It was used as a "retribution weapon" for the inhuman [[bombing of Germany during World War II]].

==History==
[[File:Rudolf Nebel (links) mit Vereinskameraden, in der Mitte steht Hermann Oberth, rechts der junge Wernher von Braun.jpg|thumb|300px|[https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Nebel,_Rudolf Rudolf Nebel] (left) with club comrades (''Vereinskameraden des Vereins für Raumschiffahrt'') in the middle stands [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Oberth,_Hermann Hermann Oberth] (to the right of the large rocket), in the middle [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Riedel,_Klaus Klaus Riedel] (with the small staff rocket), to the right behind Riedel the young [[Wernher von Braun]], 1930.]]
Earlier ballistic missile designs started in the 1930s.

: ''It all began in the 1920’s. While Germany was banned from researching or producing any military technology by the Versaille Treaty after World War I, surprisingly enough, rocket science was not part of that ban. Thus, many German scientists engaged in the fruitful exploration of rocket technology. In the so-called “Golden Twenties”, rocket science and the idea of space travel quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Large-scale public experiments were accompanied by fiction and non-fiction literature, movies and the foundations of space travel associations. With the dawn of the Third Reich, aerospace research was practically completely militarized and declared a secret state matter. The scientists simultaneously worked on space flight as well as the weaponization of rocket technology. Unbeknownst to me, German scientists actually were the first ones to shoot a rocket into space in 1942. Less than two years later, rockets of the same type are used as enormously destructive weapons in World War II, now infamously known as V2. After the war, Germany is banned from military research once more, this time including rocket science. Further, remaining technology, as well as numerous scientists, are brought to the USA and the USSR.''<ref>[https://smartergerman.com/blog/short-history-german-space-travel/ A Short History of German Space Travel] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230601094433/https://smartergerman.com/blog/short-history-german-space-travel/ Archive])</ref>

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, technology and especially scientists ([[Operation Paperclip]]). [[Wernher von Braun]] and over 100 key V-2 personnel surrendered to the Americans and many of the original V-2 team ended up working for the United States. 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. It was this German technology that formed the basis for human space flight and space robotic.

==Production==
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! Period of production || Production
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| Up to 15 September 1944 ||align="right"| 1,900
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| 15 September to 29 October 1944 ||align="right"| 900
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| 29 October to 24 November 1944 ||align="right"| 600
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| 24 November to 15 January 1945 ||align="right"| 1,100
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| 15 January to 15 February 1945 ||align="right"| 700
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!Total
!align="right"| 5200
|}
==See also==
* [[Wunderwaffe]]

==External links==
===In German===
* [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Heeresversuchsanstalt_Peenem%C3%BCnde Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde]
==References==
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[[Category:Flight]]
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