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.

Organizations

Peenemünde rocket test site

People involved

Models

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.

Surface-to-air missiles

Germany developed a number of surface-to-air missile systems, none of which was used operationally:

Enzian
Rheintochter -
Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling - radio-controlled
Wasserfall
Feuerlilie

Air-to-air missiles

As with the surface-to-air missiles above, these were never used operationally:

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 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.