V-1 Buzz Bomb (Fieseler Fi 103)V 1 Buzz Bomb airplane model. The German V 1 flying bomb, or buzz bomb, known originally as the Fieseler Fi 103, was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen ("weapons of vengeance," named in response to Allied air assaults on Germany during World War II). It emerged from proposals made in 1939 by the Argus Motorenwerke. The first V 1 test flight was made over the Peenemnde range in December 1941. The project was given high priority by the German High