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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 On one end of the spectrum are relatively tiny flying bombs, small enough to be carried in a rucksack.—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2022 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 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 The Jaguar, on fire and laden with fuel, was a flying bomb.—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2019 Some speculated the plane was stolen as part of an insurance scam, or perhaps taken by terrorists who planned to use it as a flying bomb, but the truth remains unknown.—Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2018
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