V-2

American  

[vee-too] / ˈviˈtu /

Or V-two

noun

V-2's plural

1. a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.

---

V-2 British  

noun

1. a rocket-powered ballistic missile invented by the Germans in World War II: used esp to bombard London. It used ethanol as fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidizer

---

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• V-2's
  plural

Etymology

Origin of V-2

see _V-1

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

V-2 V-2's

The OT’s Jewish victims, like their non-Jewish counterparts, were forced to work on everything from underground armaments factories to V-2 rockets and even a railroad above the Arctic Circle in Norway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Von Braun oversaw the German army’s rocket program, culminating in the development of the world’s first guided long-range ballistic missile: the V-2.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2023

In February 1944, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying Fortress that was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German V-2 rocket site in Bois-Coquerel, France.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

He ended up a prisoner in one of the abandoned quarries outside Paris where the Wehrmacht stored its arsenal of V-2 rockets during World War II.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-1's and V-2's late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.

From Time ● Aug. 9, 2017

It zipped out of the V-2's nose added its own speed to that of the V2, and reached 5,000 m.p.h.

From Time Magazine Archive

The graphite vanes were probably the V-2's weakest point.

From Time Magazine Archive

This test run constituted a record for official submarine navigation and was accounted as a feather in the V-2's periscope.

From Time Magazine Archive

We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-l’s and V-2’s late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut