The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1" [a]) was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry ( RLM ) designation was Fieseler Fi 103 [ 3 ] and its suggestive name was Höllenhund ( hellhound ).

2025年2月1日 · V-1 missile, German jet-propelled missile of World War II, the forerunner of modern cruise missiles. More than 8,000 V-1s were launched against London from June 13, 1944, to March 29, 1945, with about 2,400 hitting the target area.

The Fieseler Fi 103R, code-named Reichenberg, was a German manned version of the V-1 flying bomb (more correctly known as the Fieseler Fi 103). It was developed towards the end of the Second World War and was intended to be used as a human-guided bomb in suicidal attacks against the advancing Allies.

2015年2月6日 · Here are some amazing facts about the V-1 and its brief but brutal reign of terror. A V-1 rocket as seen from the gun camera of a British fighter. (Image source: WW2Today.com) The Original Cruise Missile. The V-1 was history’s first mass-produced cruise missile. Each could carry a 1-ton warhead nearly 250 km (160 miles) at a cruising speed of ...

The German V-1 was the world's first operational cruise missile. Powered by a noisy pulsejet that earned it the nicknames of "buzz bomb" and "doodle bug," more than 20,000 were launched at British and continental targets from June 1944 to March 1945.

2023年2月2日 · Vengeance weapon one (V-1), the “buzz bomb,” the “doodlebug” or the “Fi 103” – whatever name you call it by, this impressive World War II-era German flying bomb was the world’s first operational cruise missile. Despite numerous proposals for a weapon of this type early in the conflict, the V-1 wasn’t put into use until 1944.

2019年12月10日 · The V-1 flying bomb was developed by Germany during World War II (1939-1945) as a vengeance weapon and was an early unguided cruise missile. Tested at Peenemünde-West facility, the V-1 was the only production aircraft to utilize a …

2015年8月24日 · Some 6,000 V-1s were fired at Britain, 3,400 of them at London alone. The British destroyed nearly 4,000 (1,847 by RAF fighters—including 400 mph Gloster Meteor jets—1,878 with antiaircraft guns, and 232 by cables attached to barrage balloons). The V-2 rocket grew out of German experimentation and civilian rocket clubs in the 1930s.

The V-1 was an unmanned, un-guided, flying bomb. Although primitive by today's standards, it was the first of what we now call a "cruise missile." It was designed by the Fiesler company and designated the FZG-76.

2024年9月6日 · During the later years of World War II, Germany developed the V-1 and V-2 weapons, often referred to as "Vengeance weapons." These weapons were designed as a response to the allied bombing of German cities and represented a desperate attempt by Hitler to turn the tide of the war.