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official 24 June 1944 Reich Propaganda Ministry announcement of the "Vergeltungswaffe 1" guided missile implied that there would be another such weapon....

The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation...

1°45′30″E / 50.85417°N 1.75833°E / 50.85417; 1.75833 The V-3 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 3, ("Vengeance Weapon 3") was a German World War II large-caliber gun...

The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Retaliation Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic...

as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) developed by Nazi Germany to bomb the Allies in the war. After...

mostly-successful launch of the Aggregat 4 rocket, later known as Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2). The launch occurred on the afternoon of 3 October 1942 and...

anti-aircraft defence against the German V-1 cruise missiles (V stands for Vergeltungswaffe, 'retaliation weapon'). The 419th and 601st anti-aircraft gun battalions...

supersonic surface-to-air missile. V-1 flying bomb/Fieseler Fi 103/Vergeltungswaffe 1 – the first cruise missile. Fliegerfaust "Pilot Fist" or "Plane Fist"...

Boris Sagal British bomber squadron targets German research camp and Vergeltungswaffe 1969 Poland The Neighbours Sąsiedzi Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Bydgoszcz...

his new staff, "Well, gentlemen, I am the new V-3", referring to the Vergeltungswaffe ("vengeance" weapons). Given the desperate situation of the Western...

where the world's first large rocket, the Aggregat 4 - later called "Vergeltungswaffe V2" - was developed under the direction of Wernher von Braun. Oberth...

of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. The first combat A-4, renamed the V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2 "Retaliation/Vengeance Weapon 2") for propaganda purposes, was launched...

part of Operation Crossbow, the Anglo-American campaign against the Vergeltungswaffe, the German long-range weapons programme. Trent Park also intercepted...

be built at Peenemünde for the A-4 series, later renamed the V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe-Reprisal Weapon-2). In August 1943, as Rudolph was ready to begin production...

it high priority. Nazi propaganda dubbed this flying bomb the V1, (Vergeltungswaffe - "revenge weapon"). It was a design competing with Wernher von Braun'...

the last launch site was overrun on 29 March 1945. The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat-4 (A-4), was the...

loss of life took place on Tuesday 19 December 1944, when the 367th Vergeltungswaffe 2 or V2 rocket to hit England fell on Henry Road, a residential street...

1942 and 1943. By 1943, Germany began mass-producing the A-4 as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 ("Vengeance Weapon" 2, or more commonly, V2), a ballistic missile...

fuze, a device that played an important role in defeat of the German Vergeltungswaffe (V-1) rocket. The proximity fuze, a weapon that was later dubbed by...

reports to the contrary, Kaaden did not work on the V-1 flying bomb (the Vergeltungswaffe 1, Fieseler Fi 103) nor under Wernher von Braun on the V-2 German rocket...