V2

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
• 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, (V₂), 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 (V₂ speed), aircraft safe-takeoff speed
• V₂, 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, a brand of electronic cigarettes made by VMR Products

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