10 Most-Terrifying Space Weapons

6. Liquid-Fuelled Nazi "Wonder" Rockets (V-2)

German V-2 rocket launch 1946
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It will not come as a surprise to anyone that the Nazis thought they could militarise space, seeing as they attempted to militarise just about every imaginable place on Earth before that. In fact, it was the German V-2 rocket that became the first manmade object to enter the fringes of space.

This missile used a liquid-propellant rock engine and it was designed to attack Allied cities as a form of retaliation for the brutal bombings on German cities (including Dresden). A Nazi "vengeance weapon", more than 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war - including at London and Antwerp, with 9,000 deaths as a result.

A so-called "Wunderwaffe" ("wonder-weapon"), this was one of many such "super" weapons that Adolf Hitler asked his military to experiment with building during the course of the Second World War.

 
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