German missiles of WW2

During World War II, Germany developed many missile systems, some of which were extremely advanced.

These included the first cruise missile, the first short range ballistic missile, the first guided surface-to-air missiles, and the first anti-ship missiles.

Table of contents

1 Organisations 2 People 3 List of missiles 3.1 surface-to-surface missiles 3.2 surface-to-air missiles 3.3 air-to-air missiles 3.4 anti-ship missiles

Organisations

• Peenemunde rocket test site

People

• Werner von Braun
• Walter Dornburger

List of missiles

surface-to-surface missiles

Both the V1 and V2 were used operationally, against London and other targets. Rheinbote was fired against Antwerp.

• V1 cruise missile
• V2 rocket
• Rheinbote

surface-to-air missiles

Germany developed a number of Surface-to-air missile systems, none of which were ever used operationally:

• Enzian
• Rheintochter (an air-to-air variant was also planned)
• Wasserfall
• Schmetterling (an air-to-air variant was also planned)

air-to-air missiles

• X-4 missile (anti-tank varients of this were also designed, such as the X-7 and X-10)

anti-ship missiles

German anti-ship missiles were used operationally against allied shipping in 1943, notably in the Mediterranean Sea:

• Fritz X anti-ship missile
• Henschel Hs 293 air-to-ship gliding guided bomb