Thanks Chris and Tony !
V-1:s flew 600-650 km/h so it indeed was a difficult for any other than a Tempest V , Spitfire XIV, P-51B or P-47M...Mossie and Typhoon just were fast enuf...
Any exact figure of the T-bolt's V-1 kills ?
rgds,
Juke
I found this pretty amazing:
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Seventeen per cent of all flying bombs entering the coastal 'gun belt' were destroyed by guns in the first week on the coast. This kill rate rose week on week to reach 60 per cent by 23 August and 74 per cent in the last week of the month, when on one extraordinary day 82 per cent of all targets available to the guns fell. The kill rate increased from one V-1 for every 2500 shells fired to one for every hundred.
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Quite a duck hunt !