Originally Posted by
MPN11
I heard something on a news feed about the PM calling the RAF chaps "heroes". How that word has been overused and debased in recent years! "He heroically shot down an unarmed drone." Or am I missing seething significant, like a sky full of metal heading for Israel?
Did the RAF give 'kill' credits for those who intercepted V-1s headed for London - and would knocking down five make you an Ace?
BTW, intercepting those V-1s
was rather hazardous - the 'wing flip' technique could easily damage your own aircraft, and if you fired at it and it detonated, you could easily get damaged by the shrapnel...