# V2

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The '''[V-2 rocket](/source/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](/source/Soviet_submarine_V-2)
* V2, a prototype of the [Panzer VIII Maus](/source/Panzer_VIII_Maus) tank
* [USS V-2](/source/USS_V-2), a 1924 Barracuda-class submarine of the United States Navy
* [ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2)](/source/ARA_Veinticinco_de_Mayo_(V-2)), an aircraft carrier in the Argentine Navy from 1969 to 1997
* [Culver V-2](/source/Culver_V-2), a two-seat cabin monoplane
* [Fokker V.2](/source/Fokker_V.2), a German fighter aircraft prototype
* [MIT EAD Airframe Version 2](/source/MIT_EAD_Airframe_Version_2), the first ion wind airplane
* [Voyager 2](/source/Voyager_2) spacecraft
* [Dragon V2](/source/Dragon_V2), a commercial spacecraft being developed for astronaut crew transport
* [LNER Class V2](/source/LNER_Class_V2), a British railway steam locomotive class
* [NER Class V2](/source/NER_Class_V2), a class of British steam locomotives (later redesignated class Z)

==Engines==
* [Curtiss V-2](/source/Curtiss_V-2), an American eight-cylinder aircraft engine
* [Kharkiv model V-2](/source/Kharkiv_model_V-2), a Soviet twelve-cylinder tank engine
* [V-twin engine](/source/V-twin_engine), a two-cylinder engine

==Biology==
* [V2 receptor](/source/V2_receptor), a protein that acts as receptor for arginine vasopressin
* [Maxillary nerve](/source/Maxillary_nerve), (V<sub>2</sub>), the second division of the trigeminal nerve
* [Visual Area 2](/source/Visual_cortex) of the Visual Cortex

==Science and technology==
* [V2 word order](/source/V2_word_order), the verb-second word order of Germanic languages and other languages
* [Velocity 2](/source/Velocity_2) (V<sub>2</sub> speed), aircraft safe-takeoff speed
* V<sub>2</sub>, one of six precordial leads in [electrocardiography](/source/electrocardiography)
* Parameter describing the azimuthal anisotropy in [heavy-ion collision](/source/heavy-ion_collision)s
* [V-2 trailer](/source/V-2_trailer), a mobile ground-controlled approach radar system element

==The arts==
* "[V-2 Schneider](/source/V-2_Schneider)", a mostly instrumental piece on the 1977 David Bowie album ''Heroes''
* [''V2'' (album)](/source/V2_(album)), second studio album (1978) by punk rock band the Vibrators
* ["V2" (song)](/source/V2_(song)), a single by That Petrol Emotion
* ''[V2: Dead Angel](/source/V2%3A_Dead_Angel)'', a 2007 Finnish film

==Businesses and products==
* [V2 Records](/source/V2_Records), a record label founded by Richard Branson
* V2 Radio, a radio station set up as a local successor to the [UKRD Group](/source/UKRD_Group) station in Sussex
* [V2.fi](/source/V2.fi), a Finnish gaming and entertainment-oriented website
* [Byte (service)](/source/Byte_(service)), a short-form video hosting service formerly known as "v2"
* [Hanlin eReader V2](/source/Hanlin_eReader_V2), an ebook reader
* [V2 Cigs](/source/V2_Cigs), a brand of electronic cigarettes

==Other==
* [Vatican II](/source/Vatican_II) or Second Vatican Council (1962 - 1965)
* V2, Antigua & Barbuda's [International Telecommunication Union prefix](/source/ITU_prefix)
* [V2 Institute for the Unstable Media](/source/V2_Institute_for_the_Unstable_Media), a Rotterdam-based new media research institute
* [ITU-T V.2](/source/ITU-T_V.2), a telecommunications recommendation
* V2, a boss character from the video game ''[Ultrakill](/source/Ultrakill)''

==See also==
* [2V (disambiguation)](/source/2V_(disambiguation))

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