How is a V-weapons (Vergeltungswaffen)

V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German pronunciation: [fɐˈgɛltʊŋsˌvafṇ], German: “retaliatory weapons”, “reprisal weapons”), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly terror bombing and/or aerial bombing of cities. They comprised the V-1, a pulsejet-powered cruise missile; the V-2, a liquid-fuelled ballistic missile (often referred to as V1 and V2); and the V-3 cannon. All of these weapons were intended

V-3 cannon (“high-pressure-pump”)

The V-3 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 3, “Retribution Weapon 3”) was a German World War II large-caliber gun working on the multi-charge principle whereby secondary propellant charges are fired to add velocity to a projectile. This article is about the German large caliber gun, also known as the “London gun”. For other uses, see V3.For the German long-distance World War I gun, see Paris gun.For the

V-2 rocket

The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, “Retribution Weapon 2”), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a “vengeance weapon“, assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán

V-1 flying bomb Fieseler Fi 103 Flakzielgerät 76 (FZG-76)

The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 “Vengeance Weapon 1”)—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherry stone) or Maikäfer (maybug), as well as by its official RLM aircraft designation of Fi 103—was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power. “Buzzbomb” redirects here. For the song by the Dead Kennedys, see Buzzbomb (song). For other uses, see V1 (disambiguation). The V-1 was