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| | Remote Piloted Aerial Vehicles : The 'Aerial Target' and 'Aerial Torpedo' in Germany |
 | | Research and development of the missile was initiated in June 1942 by the Luftwaffe, which viewed the cruise missile as a pilot-less plane, at the Research Station in Peenemünde. |
 | | The missile could reach an altitude between 3,500 to 4,000 feet, and this made it especially difficult for British anti-aircraft defence since it was too low for the heavy guns and too high for light ones to engage effectively. |
 | | The German V1 flying bomb, or 'buzz' bomb, known originally as the Fieseler Fi 103, FZG 76, was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen ("weapons of vengeance," named in response to Allied air assaults on Germany during World War II). |
| www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/rpav_germany_fiesler.html (1795 words) |
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