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A-4/V-2 Missile

The V-2 (Vengeance Weapon 2), or Aggregat 4, was the first ballistic missile used to strike distant targets. Germany launched almost 3,000 V-2s against England, France, and Belgium. After the war, the United States and the Soviet Union used captured V-2s as a basis of their own rocket programs.