The V-1 flying bomb was an impact in air combat, bombing a target, without risking pilots or planes, it was revolutionary, the first example of a self-guided missile, which we now know as a cruise missile, the idea immediately caught on in all the forces. airlines in the world, which began to develop their own models, but they were decades behind in technology, so the most natural thing was that they copied the V-1.
The curious thing is that the Americans began to copy the V-1, before being mass produced, when they were able to get their hands on the destroyed body of a prototype. The effort was so great that the first models were delivered in September 1944, few Months after the first V-1 was launched, the reverse engineering did not work very well, and corrections had to be made, so it was not ready until April 1945, when its mass production was authorized, by then Germany had been almost defeated, so its use against Japan was planned.
Its development after the war was very limited, it was overshadowed by the V-2, more powerful, with greater range and more difficult to intercept, however, the USN saw that it was an excellent weapon to increase the power of fire from their submarines, which paved the way for the Polaris Missiles
This model is from Scratch, using a main exterior tank from an F-4, and material from a milk bottle and a straw, the paint is Old Marine, all with a brush.
