I have read an explanation ( [here](https://users.monash.edu/~dschmidt/personal/v1.html) ) on how the guidance system worked but it went over my head
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Slightly expanding the question, there is an interesting account in RV Jones’ memoirs about the V1 range finding.
By 1944 the Germans had no capability to do aerial reconnaissance over London, and had not some some years. So any damage reports were going to be reliant on agents. All the “agents” were in control of the XX committee. The V1s were falling short anyway: the aim point was supposedly Charing Cross, but they were falling more in south London. It was determined that by carefully reporting fake impact points, or more precisely reporting as falling in north London V1s which actually fell in south London, the aim point could be crept back into much less populated Kent. The “agents” were so trusted that the Germans believed them even when they conflicted with radio tracking.
The civilian government was outraged by this: although it would kill fewer people, it would do so by killing people who would not otherwise have died. A moral conundrum raised by Herbert Morrison, and solved by Jones by doing it anyway.
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