List of German guided weapons of World War II

During World War II, Nazi Germany developed many missiles and precision-guided munition systems.

These included the first cruise missile, the first short-range ballistic missile, the first guided surface-to-air missiles, and the first anti-ship missiles.

Organisations

 * Peenemünde rocket test site

People involved

 * Wernher von Braun
 * Walter Dornberger
 * Walter Thiel
 * Max Kramer
 * Herbert A. Wagner

Surface-to-surface missiles
The V1, which may be seen as the first cruise missile, was used operationally against London and Antwerp. The V-2 ballistic missile was used operationally against London, Antwerp, and other targets. The Rheinbote was fired against Antwerp.
 * V-1 flying bomb
 * V-2 rocket
 * Rheinbote
 * A4b

Surface-to-air missiles
Germany developed a number of surface-to-air missile systems, none of which was used operationally:
 * Enzian (Gentian)
 * Rheintochter (Rhine Daughter) - (an air-to-air variant was also planned)
 * Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (Butterfly) - radio-controlled (an air-to-air variant was also planned)
 * Wasserfall (Waterfall)
 * Feuerlilie (Fire Lily)

Air-to-air missiles
As with the surface-to-air missiles above, these were never used operationally:
 * Ruhrstahl X-4 (actively wire-guided; anti-tank variants of this were also designed, such as the X-7)

Anti-ship missiles
Anti-ship missiles were used operationally against allied shipping in 1943, notably in the Mediterranean Sea, guided by the Funkgerät FuG 203 Kehl series of MCLOS radio guidance systems aboard the deploying aircraft:
 * Fritz X armored, anti-ship gravity PGM
 * Henschel Hs 293 air-to-ship, rocket-boosted gliding guided bomb

Air-to-surface weapons
The Mistel composite aircraft configuration was used (with almost no effects) on the front lines both on western and eastern front. This system was composed by a bomber filled with explosive, coupled to a fighter plane: the pilot in the fighter plane flew the two coupled airplanes up to near the target, then he disconnected the aircraft and commanded the bomber to crash onto the target by radio control.