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2. List of V-2 test launches - Wikipedia

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   The list of V-2 test launches identifies World War II launches of the A4 rocket (renamed V-2 in 1944). Test launches were made at Peenemünde Test Stand VII, Blizna V-2 missile launch site and Tuchola Forest using experimental and production rockets fabricated at Peenemünde and at the Mittelwerk.

3. V-2 rocket - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Peenemünde Army Research Center - Wikipedia

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   All of the research buildings and rocket test stands had been demolished. [36] End of April 1945, a group of more than 450 important rocket scientists from Peenemünde were captured by the U.S. Army in Oberammergau while Wernher von Braun, Walter Dornberger and several others surrendered in Reutte on May 2, 1945.

5. Meillerwagen - Wikipedia

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   The Meillerwagen (English: Meiller vehicle) was a German World War II trailer used to transport a V-2 rocket from the 'transloading point' [1] [a] of the Technical Troop Area to the launching point, to erect the missile on the Brennstand (English: firing stand), [b] and to act as the service gantry for fuelling and launch preparation.

6. Blizna V-2 missile launch site - Wikipedia

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   The rocket was then dismantled and smuggled across Poland. [34] [35] During the night of 25–26 July 1944, the Polish resistance (Home Army and V1 and V2) secretly transported parts of the rocket out of Poland in Operation Most III (Bridge III or Wildhorn III), [12] for analysis by British Intelligence.

7. CAMM (missile family) - Wikipedia

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   The CAMM (Common Anti-Air Modular Missile) is a family of surface-to-air missiles developed by MBDA UK for the United Kingdom. CAMM is derived from, and shares some common features and components with, the Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (), but with updated electronics, a soft vertical launch system, and an active radar homing seeker.