V2 Rocket


In the 1940s, a German team under Wernher von Braun developed the V-2 rocket, the first long-range guided missile. There were four different kinds of V-2: (V-2A) Air-to-air; (V-2AS) Air-to-Surface; (V-2SSA) surface-to-air; and (V-2 SS) surface-to-surface. The Russians were the first to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (an expanded V2) in 1958, and the first to use submarines to launch ballistic missiles. Today, V-2-type missiles can be launched from aircraft, surface ships, submarines, or (banned by a U.S.-Russia treaty) the ground. Guided missiles with warheads have become a key strategic weapon of modern warfare

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