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)