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The new study focused on the Bay of Lübeck, where V-1 flying bomb warheads lie on the seafloor.—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025 The dumpsite was found to be home to warheads from V-1 flying bombs, the cruise missile used by Nazi Germany in late World War II.—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2025 Russia is flying bombs over Poland, shutting down its airports.—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2025 World War 2 also saw a V1 flying bomb detonate nearby, shredding entire sections of the famous 'Onion Dome'.—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 June 2025 Over the next five years at MIT, more than 100 radar systems were developed to counteract the threat of German U-boats and V-1 flying bombs.—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025 Indeed, the earliest cruise missile design, the V-1 flying bomb used during World War II, was powered by a pulse jet.—Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 On one end of the spectrum are relatively tiny flying bombs, small enough to be carried in a rucksack.—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2022 At the time the Germans were launching buzz bombs, or V-1 flying bombs, which would nose-dive into the ground with about a ton of TNT.—New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
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