This page serves as a repository for cutaway diagrams and photos of the V-2/A-4.

This diagram shows a cutaway of the engine compartment. The instrumentation compartment, outlined by the "A-B-C-D" just aft of the warhead, is not cut away in this diagram, but the access panels are open on the V-2 at the Kansas Cosmosphere.

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From the front cover of Technical Data on the Development of the A4/V-2, located in the private collection of Dave Christensen (also available from the NASA Technical Reports Server; alternate link).
Scan and restoration by heroicrelics.

Here's a nice cutaway with call-outs:

I pointed out how nice the cutaway V-2 diagram above was; the document's authors thought it was so nice that they decided to reuse it, not once, but twice!

Here the cutaway diagram is used to compare with the missile on the launcher platform:

Left caption: Cross-section of Long Range Rocket
Right caption: Long Range Rocket on Launch Table
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From page 27 of Technical Data on the Development of the A4/V-2, located in the private collection of Dave Christensen (also available from the NASA Technical Reports Server; alternate link).
Scan and clean-up by heroicrelics.

Back in the 1940s, the 200-mile range V-2 was considered a "Fernrakete", or "long-range" rocket, while today 200 miles barely qualifies as a "short-range" missile.

Here the cutaway diagram is used to compare the A-4 against its predecessors, the A-3 and the A-5:

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From page 25 of Technical Data on the Development of the A4/V-2, located in the private collection of Dave Christensen (also available from the NASA Technical Reports Server; alternate link).
Scan and clean-up by heroicrelics.

Here's a series of drawings which would seem to all be based on the same original, yet are all slightly different.

The first was appeared in a report prepared for the U.S. government shortly after the war by North American Aviation, Inc. During the war NAA made such legendary planes as the P-51 Mustang and the B-25 Mitchell. After the war, they were given V-2 hardware. A division which would go on to become Rocketdyne reverse-engineered the engine, made their own copy, and then went about improving it to create such early engines as the engine for the Navajo cruise missile and the A-7 Redstone. engine.

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From North American Aviation Inc Report No. 46-810, A-4 Propulsion System Analysis, located in the archives of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Scan and cleanup by heroicrelics.

This diagram has a few callouts:

This one was produced by the U.S. Army:

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Scan courtesy the National Museum of the US Air Force.
Reconstruction by heroicrelics.

In addition to the callouts in the above diagram this one contains many more:

I suspect the clerk who typed the captions on this diagram copied them from the diagram below, as there are a few typographical errors and at least one place where a misspelling crept in because of a smudge on the diagram below. The diagram itself also contains the British spelling of "stabilising."

However, this diagram does have an additional detail neither the one above nor below has: This diagram has aerial leads (#30) on the tailing edge of the "stabilising" fins.

The same basic diagram as the U.S. Army diagram above, but a different scan. This diagram is higher resolution and shows things like the Nazi insignia on the German officer's uniform (although I suppose it may have been purposely removed in the U.S. Army diagram above) but oddly shows only a few of the rivets on the fins, which are easily visible above.

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The same basic callouts as above:

Here's another "skin peeled away" type diagram, as opposed to a line drawing. The photo I scanned appeared to have been a photo of a photo, where the original photo or diagram was not flat; close inspection of my scan shows various areas where the focus is soft.

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From the green "A-4 Details" binder, "Tech Development A4 by Schulze" binder, located in the archives of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Scan and restoration by heroicrelics.

Thanks to Dr. Dieter M. Zube for translation assistance.