Talk:V-1 flying bomb

message: Under specifications, it says "Detonation Mechanism: 100". What does that mean? 100 what?Tsuka (talk) 07:38, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea.  Also the use of Amatol is unsourced - I think this ought to be Trialen. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:48, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've added an article on Trialen. Prioryman (talk) 22:47, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks.  I've an article on aluminised explosives in general I ought to upload. There was a stupid argument here (naval mines?) a while back on how they didn't exist. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:21, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Detonation Mechanism 

message: According to the Operation and effectiveness section, it was “about 1000”.  But totting up the number as detailed by plane type later on in the article (Interceptors subsection) the number is far higher.  Excluding Tempests, we have about 1300.  The number destroyed by Tempests is hard to ascertain from the article (is the *total* 638?).  So clearly “about 1000” is very wrong, even though it is referenced.   
Also, it would be great to have a summary like this:   xxxx were launched at English targets, of which xxxx were destroyed by interceptors and xxxx believed destroyed by anti-aircraft guns.   Boscaswell talk 09:18, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The number destroyed by interceptors  

message: The introduction mentions: "At peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces." This is dubious. The launch sites at the Dutch coast (e.g. The Hague) were not liberated before 5 May 1945, so there must have been an additional reason for the V1 attacks on England to stop in October 1944. Gollem (talk) 13:53, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the launch sites at the Dutch coast weren't in easy range of London - they could only be used to attack London when extended range V-1s became available in February 1945.Nigel Ish (talk) 14:15, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

text: The extended range V-1s were launched against England from three sites in western Holland on 3 March 1945 - three more sites were aimed at Antwerp. Attacks continued until 28 March - 275 bombs were launched at England, of which 125 got as far as the British defences, which destroyed 94 bombs - only 13 reached London. (Basil Collier, The Defence of the United Kingdom   pp. 394–395.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:36, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

text: It could be written clearer, but there were three phases of V-1 attacks against Britain - the first was the attacks from France against London, which stopped when the advancing Allied forces overran the launch sites, the air-launched attacks, which ended in January, and the very small scale attacks by long range weapons in March 1945 - the October statement in the lede refers to the large scale attacks from France (and technically it is correct - they bases in France were the only land bases in range of England AT THE TIME - it took several more months for the long range V-1s to be developed and new launch sites aimed at Britain set up.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:39, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why did attacks on England stop in October 1944? 

message: The shorter range improved the accuracy of the V-1 which was six miles deviation per hundred miles of flight, the flight level was also reduced to around 3,000 ft.--Adûnâi (talk) 14:35, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. This article has some problems, as a German subject the primary units should be metric, it needs a review. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 18:30, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please, translate feet into metric 

message: The arado carrying a V1 model is incorrect. It is stated to be the C version, and the wings and motors are correct, but the fuselage and cockpit is a clearly a 2 engined B version. If someone has a correct image could they change it please? Even if it's a drawing would be better than giving incorrect images
: The image is correct, it is of a model in the Speyer museum. The caption makes no mention of which variant is modelled. If the model is incorrect then you will have to take that up with the curator of the museum. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 16:14, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Well then i will have to. Unless the model in the image is a special version with a b2 cockpit and c cuadruple engines made specifically to carry V-1's, the model is not correct. I will take it to the museum. Regards Juanal expert (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I did find that every source agrees it was a c variant what would do the launch, and i have found a technical drawings that include the launching system. Anyways, no C versions were ever completed, even less a prototype for the air launch arado, so sources widely disagree on wich versioj was it, because it simply didn't exist. It was only a project. Juanal expert (talk) 10:47, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

text: I was going to remove the original image, but because the special nature of this version, i will aimply add my image next to it. Juanal expert (talk) 10:49, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arado image incorrect 

message: It would help perspective as to progress in dealing with the V-1 attacks on London if the date the first person who successfully defused a V-1, John Pilkington Hudson, were given. The date is not given in the wikipedia biography of JPH.Cloptonson (talk) 12:12, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Disposal

message: on the wikipedia site abount "companies involved in the holocaust" stays 
"volkswagen built it" 
is that true? 
volkswagen is a nazi-corporation. eine firma, ein konzern, ein unternehmen. 2001:9E8:D2EC:9400:6208:7A64:817E:B8CF (talk) 07:55, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  volkswagen built this missile