V 2 Rocket Missile And Launcher Photograph By Jose Antonio Penas

V 2 Rocket Missile And Launcher Photograph By Jose Antonio Penas The rocket was 14 metres in length, carried nearly a tonne of explosive, and could reach a height of 80 kilometres. it was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first to achieve sub orbital flight. the first successful flight was on 3 october 1942. from september 1944 to march 1945, over 3000 v 2 rockets were launched by nazi germany. It was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first to achieve sub orbital flight. the first successful flight was on 3 october 1942. from september 1944 to march 1945, over 3000 v 2 rockets were launched by nazi germany during the war. the work on the v 2 rocket laid the foundations for later work on space flight.

Aluminium Airframe Structure Section From German V2 Rocket Fired At The v2 (german: vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'vengeance weapon 2'), with the technical name aggregat 4 (a4), was the world's first long range [4] guided ballistic missile.the missile, powered by a liquid propellant rocket engine, was developed during the second world war in nazi germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack allied cities as retaliation for the allied bombings of german. The first v 2 attacks were launched against paris and london on september 8, 1944. over the next eight months, a total of 3,172 v 2 were launched at allied cities including london, paris, antwerp, lille, norwich, and liege. due to the missile’s ballistic trajectory and extreme speed which exceeded three times the speed of sound during descent. The flight of v 2 #17, on 17 of december 1946, was launched at 2212 hours. this was the first night firing of a v 2 in the united states. the rocket motor had a burning time of 19.6 seconds, the longest of any v 2 fired during the entire program. it also attained a record velocity of 5,402 feet per second. Missile. v 2 rocket, german ballistic missile of world war ii, the forerunner of modern space rockets and long range missiles. developed in germany from 1936 through the efforts of scientists led by wernher von braun, it was first successfully launched on october 3, 1942, and was fired against paris on september 6, 1944.