\<COLOUR 1> PAYLOAD: \<COLOUR 0> 975 kg high explosive
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Early A-4s, Peenemunde, Baltic Sea; operational V-2s, various launch sites in occupied Europe
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> Germany
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The ancestor of the space rocket, designed and developed in the early 1940s by a team led by Wernher von Braun, who would later design the US Moon rockets; A-4 is the original designation, but the rocket becomes infamous as the V-2, the second of Hitler's revenge weapons, Vergeltungschwaffe-2, and is used to bombard Antwerp and London in 1944 and 1945.