Military
- The modern flamethrower by Richard Fiedler in 1901.
- Submachine gun(MP 18 by Theodor Bergmann)
- The modern assault rifle
- Cruise missile : V-1 flying bomb
- Ballistic missile : A-4, commonly known as the V-2 rocket in the 1930s and 1940s under direction of Wernher von Braun.
- Rifling
- Dreyse needle gun by Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
- Rocket-powered aircraft, the Lippisch Ente in 1928.
- Mass produced rocket-powered aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 163 in 1944
- Brandtaucher by Wilhelm Bauer
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