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The '''V-2 rocket''' was a German early ballistic missile of World War II.

'''V2''' or '''V-2''' may also refer to:

==Vehicles, craft, and ships== * Soviet submarine V-2 * V2, a prototype of the Panzer VIII Maus tank * USS V-2, a 1924 Barracuda-class submarine of the United States Navy * ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2), an aircraft carrier in the Argentine Navy from 1969 to 1997 * Culver V-2, a two-seat cabin monoplane * Fokker V.2, a German fighter aircraft prototype * MIT EAD Airframe Version 2, the first ion wind airplane * Voyager 2 spacecraft * Dragon V2, a commercial spacecraft being developed for astronaut crew transport * LNER Class V2, a British railway steam locomotive class * NER Class V2, a class of British steam locomotives (later redesignated class Z)

==Engines== * Curtiss V-2, an American eight-cylinder aircraft engine * Kharkiv model V-2, a Soviet twelve-cylinder tank engine * V-twin engine, a two-cylinder engine

==Biology== * V2 receptor, a protein that acts as receptor for arginine vasopressin * Maxillary nerve, (V<sub>2</sub>), the second division of the trigeminal nerve * Visual Area 2 of the Visual Cortex

==Science and technology== * V2 word order, the verb-second word order of Germanic languages and other languages * Velocity 2 (V<sub>2</sub> speed), aircraft safe-takeoff speed * V<sub>2</sub>, one of six precordial leads in electrocardiography * Parameter describing the azimuthal anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions * V-2 trailer, a mobile ground-controlled approach radar system element

==The arts== * "V-2 Schneider", a mostly instrumental piece on the 1977 David Bowie album ''Heroes'' * ''V2'' (album), second studio album (1978) by punk rock band the Vibrators * "V2" (song), a single by That Petrol Emotion * ''V2: Dead Angel'', a 2007 Finnish film

==Businesses and products== * V2 Records, a record label founded by Richard Branson * V2 Radio, a radio station set up as a local successor to the UKRD Group station in Sussex * V2.fi, a Finnish gaming and entertainment-oriented website * Byte (service), a short-form video hosting service formerly known as "v2" * Hanlin eReader V2, an ebook reader * V2 Cigs, a brand of electronic cigarettes

==Other== * Vatican II or Second Vatican Council (1962 - 1965) * V2, Antigua & Barbuda's International Telecommunication Union prefix * V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, a Rotterdam-based new media research institute * ITU-T V.2, a telecommunications recommendation * V2, a boss character from the video game ''Ultrakill''

==See also== * 2V (disambiguation)

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