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Why did the Germans not develop an air-launched version of the V-1 during WWII?

It seems to me that this would have seriously impaired the efforts of the RAF to shoot them down - once they detect the incoming Stukas, He 111s, and Bf-109s, and they scramble Spitfires to meet them, they think they're just ordinary German fighters and bombers.

Until the Spitfires close with the German planes, start firing, and suddenly each Stuka launches a V-1 from under each of its wings and turns for home as the V-1s streak past the Spitfires towards London...
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