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V-2 rocket: History, Applications & Measurement
The V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the development name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world's first practical, modern ballistic missile and suborbital launch vehicle. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and…
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V-2 rocket topic overview
The analysis highlights History, Applications and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around V-2 rocket.
Related topics
323
Source areas
14
Connected nodes
337
Extracted relationships
102
Related term clusters
77
Bridge connections
337
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Technical details · 54 topics
Development history · 37 topics
Post-war use · 37 topics
Overview · 33 topics
United States · 28 topics
Surviving V-2 examples and components · 26 topics
Operational history · 24 topics
Targets · 22 topics
Production · 20 topics
Assessment · 12 topics
Countermeasures · 11 topics
Unfulfilled plans · 9 topics
Launch sites · 8 topics
France · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Designer
Peenemünde Army Research Center
Detonation mechanism
Impact
Diameter
1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Flight altitude
88 km (55 mi) maximum altitude on long-range trajectory · 206 km (128 mi) maximum altitude if launched vertically
Guidance system
Gyroscopes to determine direction · Electronic course correction autopilot · Müller-type pendulous gyroscopic accelerometer for engine cutoff on most production rockets: 225
In service
1944–1952
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V-2 rocket
14German language · V-weapons · Literal translation
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How V-2 rocket connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around V-2 rocket shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, V-2 rocket → Allies, Blizna, Blizna V-2, British, Bäckebo, Cape Canaveral, Cuxhaven, June, Kapustin Yar, May, October, Operation Most III, Peenemünde, Polish, Sweden, Test, Tuchola Forest, Two, UK, USSR Another extracted example is V-2 rocket → Antwerp, Arras, Belgium, Cambrai, Diest, France, Germany, Hasselt, Ipswich, Lille, Liège, London, Ludendorff Bridge, Maastricht, Mons, Netherlands, Norwich, Paris, Remagen, Tourcoing. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
V-2 rocket
Top relations
related to Testing· 24
V-2 rocket → Allies, Blizna, Blizna V-2, British, Bäckebo, Cape Canaveral, Cuxhaven, June, Kapustin Yar, May, October, Operation Most III, Peenemünde, Polish, Sweden, Test, Tuchola Forest, Two, UK, USSR
V-2 rocket → Americans, Braun, France, German, Magnus, Nazi, Nazis, Operation Paperclip, Soviets, The V-2, Three, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, V-2, V-2s, Von Braun, Walter Dornberger, Wernher
Used by· 5
V-2 rocket → Soviet Union, SS, United Kingdom, United States, Wehrmacht
Guidance system· 3
V-2 rocket → Electronic course correction autopilot, Gyroscopes to determine direction, Müller-type pendulous gyroscopic accelerometer for engine cutoff on most production rockets: 225
Propellant· 3
V-2 rocket → 25% water, 3,810 kg (8,400 lb) 75% Ethanol, 4,910 kg (10,820 lb) liquid oxygen
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 102 structured relationships around V-2 rocket. Examples in this analysis include V-2 rocket → .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Maximum speed → Maximum: 5,760 km/h (3,580 mph) and V-2 rocket → .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Maximum speed → At impact: 2,880 km/h (1,790 mph). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
88 km (55 mi) maximum altitude on long-range trajectory
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Flight altitude
206 km (128 mi) maximum altitude if launched vertically
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Guidance system
Gyroscopes to determine direction
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Guidance system
Electronic course correction autopilot
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Guidance system
Müller-type pendulous gyroscopic accelerometer for engine cutoff on most production rockets: 225
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In service
1944–1952
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Launch platform
Mobile (Meillerwagen)
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Length
14 m (45 ft 11 in)
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Manufacturer
Mittelwerk GmbH
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Mass
12,500 kg (27,600 lb)
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No. built
Approx 6,000, including test models: 263
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Operational range
320 km (200 mi)
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Place of origin
Nazi Germany
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Produced
16 March 1942 – 1945 (Nazi)
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Produced
Some assembled post-war
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Propellant
3,810 kg (8,400 lb) 75% Ethanol
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Propellant
25% water
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Propellant
4,910 kg (10,820 lb) liquid oxygen
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Type
Single-stage ballistic missile
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Unit cost
January 1944: 100,000 RM
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Unit cost
March 1945: 50,000 RM
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Used by
Wehrmacht
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Used by
SS
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Used by
United Kingdom
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Used by
United States
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Related concept clusters Related term clusters
Related term clusters group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around V-2 rocket bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include V-2, German and War. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
V-2 rocket
V-2
German
War
Engine
Test
Launch
Including
Museum
Missiles
Peenemünde
Braun
Launched
ballistic missile
Launch
Operation
Launched
Germany
V-2
One
Used
System
Engine
Peenemünde
Rocket
States
launch vehicle
Missile
Operation
V-2
Near
Also
Peenemünde
Rocket
Test
Launched
One
Including
Missiles
nazi germany
United
Launched
Missile
States
Rockets
War
Operation
Peenemünde
Von
Braun
Rocket
V-2
missile technology
Launch
Operation
Launched
Germany
V-2
One
Used
System
Engine
Peenemünde
Rocket
States
blizna v-2 missile launch site
Launch
Missile
Operation
V-2
Launched
War
Germany
Near
Also
Peenemünde
Rocket
Test
national air and space museum
One
Including
Space
Rocket
States
United
Chamber
Missiles
Near
Used
War
V-2
white sands missile range
Launch
Operation
Launched
Germany
V-2
One
Used
System
Engine
Peenemünde
Rocket
States
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For V-2 rocket, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects V-2 rocket with Technical details. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
V-2 rocket
Nodes338
Edges337
Triples102
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005917
Components1
Source & methodology
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