Rheinbote

German short range ballistic rocket

Rheinbote (lit. 'Rhine Messenger'), also known as Rh Z 61/9 and Raketen-Sprenggranate 4831, was a German four-stage, solid-fuel, unguided ballistic artillery rocket developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig during the Second World War. Sometimes referred to in postwar literature as V-4, by analogy with the V-1 and V-2 vengeance weapons, the weapon was assigned the code name Meteor by the Wehrmacht.