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The German V1 flying bomb, or ‘buzz’ bomb, known originally as the Fieseler Fi 103, was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen “weapons of vengeance,” named in response to Allied air assaults on Germany during World War II. It emerged from proposals made in 1939 by the Argus Motorenwerke.
The first of Germany’s “V-weapons” to be unleashed, the V-1, also known as the Fieseler FI-103, was a small pilotless aircraft powered by a pulse jet engine and carrying a one-ton explosive warhead. Although prone to mechanical failure and vulnerable to fighters, barrage balloons, and anti-aircraft fire, the V-1 nevertheless caused great destruction to targets in England and Belgium. Troops and civilians subjected to these attacks nicknamed them “doodlebugs” or “buzz bombs”. The flying bomb concept can be seen today in the modern cruise missile.
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