Photograph of a V-2 Rocket, the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile, being prepared for launch. The missile with a liquid-propellant rocket engine was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a "vengeance weapon", assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. Dated 20th Century

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