The list of V-2 test launches identifies World War II launches of the A4 rocket (renamed V-2 in 1944). Test launches were made at

Peenemünde Peenemünde (, ) is a municipality on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany. It is part of the ''Amt (country subdivision), Amt'' (collective municipality) of Used ...

Test Stand VII Test Stand VII (, P-7) was the principal V-2 rocket testing facility at Peenemünde Airfield and was capable of static firing rocket motors with up to 200 tons of thrust. Notable events at the site include the first successful V-2 launch on 3 O ...

, Blizna V-2 missile launch site and Tuchola Forest using experimental and production rockets fabricated at

and at the

Mittelwerk Mittelwerk (; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flyin ...

Post-war A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war. The term usually refers to a varying period of time after World War II, which ended in 1945. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, ...

launches were performed in Germany at

Cuxhaven Cuxhaven (; ) is a town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town includes the northernmost point of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. Cuxhaven has a footprint o ...

, in the USSR at

Kapustin Yar Kapustin Yar () is a Russian military training area and a rocket launch complex in Astrakhan Oblast, about 100 km east of Volgograd. It was established by the Soviet Union on 13 May 1946. In the beginning, Kapustin Yar used technology, material ...

, in the USA at White Sands Proving Grounds,

Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral () is a cape (geography), cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. Officially Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated ...

, and on the USS ''Midway'' during Operation Sandy.

List of test launches at Peenemünde and the Greifswalder Oie

Launch Sites: * P-VI = Test Stand VI (Prüfstand VI) * P-VII =

(Prüfstand VII) * P-X = Test Stand X (Prüfstand X) * P-XII = Test Stand XII (Prüfstand XII) * Oie = Greifswalder Oie, a small island used for vertical launches * Karlshagen = area of destroyed settlement Karlshagen after air raid on 17 August 1943 * Rail = Launches from a train

Launches of A4b

Blizna test launch list

Tuchola forest test launch list

Operation Backfire launches near Cuxhaven

For Operation Backfire, the British collected together and assembled a small number of V-2s to be launched for demonstration purposes.

Launches of captured V-2 rockets in the United States after 1945

The Upper Atmosphere Research Panel performed experiments on US flights of V-2s.

Launches of V2 by the Soviet Union

The USSR captured the V-2 production facility at Nordhausen and assembled their own V-2s. Subsequently, they moved the equipment to the USSR and developed their own copy, the missile R-1.

Notes and references

The rocket designation "V" is for ''Versuchsmuster'' (). The rocket designation "MW" is for rockets produced at the

External links

V2rocket.guidePoland.info: V-2 rocket launches in Poland

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