V1, V2

V1, V2 – Ger­man so-called retal­ia­to­ry weapons (Vergel­tungswaf­fen), which were intend­ed to reverse the course of the Sec­ond World War. Their ser­i­al pro­duc­tion began in 1944 and by June the first V1 was launched at Lon­don. Besides Lon­don, the most com­mon tar­gets for V1 air-launched mis­siles and V2 bal­lis­tic mis­siles were Antwerp and oth­er Euro­pean cities.