Yeah, since the V-2 was a ballistic missile. The V-1 was the early form of a cruise missile with very little in the form of guidance - they could make it fly straight ahead (most of the time, anyway) and then it fell to detonate on impact when it ran out of fuel. Fighter pilots discovered that if they could catch them over sparsely populated areas and flip their wingtip underneath one of the V-1's stubby little wings they could screw up the V-1's gyro and cause it to nosedive into the ground.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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