Back قنبلة طائرة Arabic Bomba volant Catalan بمب پرنده Persian Bombe volante French 飛行爆弾 Japanese Bomba voadora Portuguese Leteća bomba Serbo-Croatian Летећа бомба Serbian Bom bay Vietnamese
A flying bomb is a manned or unmanned aerial vehicle or aircraft carrying a large explosive warhead, a precursor to contemporary cruise missiles. In contrast to a bomber aircraft, which is intended to release bombs and then return to its base for re-use, a flying bomb crashes into its target and is therefore destroyed in its attack.
The term flying bomb is most frequently associated with two specific Second World War weapons, the German V-1 and the Japanese Ohka. The former was unpiloted, as the first known cruise missile ever deployed in combat; the latter carried a pilot on a kamikaze mission.