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...rman [[guided missile]] research and argued against the existence of the [[V-2]] until that missile was used against Britain.

* [[V-2]] - first spacecraft (1944), initially a military weapon, later used as sou

...t-built [[SS-1 SCUD]] and many national derivatives of it, are essentially V-2 clones. | ''German [[V-2]]<br />

...1942''': On [[October 3]] the first successful test launch of the German [[V-2]] [[ballistic missile]], at [[Peenemunde]] in Germany. This was probably th ** Early in the year (date uncertain) a [[V-2]] test rocket, launched from [[Peenemunde]] in [[Germany]] reached 189 kilo

*SCUD derivatives, which themselves are derivatives of the WWII German V-2

...e mountain at Nordhausen, to create the large underground facility where [[V-2]] missiles and other weapons could be produced well away from aerial bombin ...irts of Nordhausen during World War II to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory in the Kohnstein. Over its period of operation, around 60,00

...a kill ratio of about 79%. (They were ineffective against the much faster V-2 missiles.) There was no risk of a dud falling into enemy hands. The Pentag