i-Tank teams would travel in the Bren, looking for enemy tanks during battle and would attack them with their anti-tank weapons. This was used exclusively on the Eastern front where the Russians were giving the Germans great difficulty with their T-34s.
The Germans are best known for their creation of the first rockets ever used in war, the V1 and V2 rockets. The V1 was officially called the F2G-76, but Goebbels, the German minister of propaganda named the V1 (V for vergeltungwaffe which means reprisal weapon). This was going to be the weapon used to destroy London in retaliation for the bombing of German cities. The V1 was 8 meters long and was a streamlined pilotless flying bomb with a pulse or ramjet engine fueled by gasoline and compressed air. It was launched from a ski jump style ramp and carried a one ton warhead at 550 km/h (350mph) with a maximum range of 400km (250mi) using an automated guidance system before crashing.
Its first efforts were dismal. Of the ten that were fired from Watten, near the channel coast, five cr
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