23 Dec
2001
23 Dec
'01
8:47 a.m.
Geoff Roberts wrote:
Several 'last ditch' things were attempted.
Schmetterling (Butterfly) was a
radar guided SAM that fortunately never saw service. The Henschel HS893
glide bomb did, and was used in active service in the anti ship role. The
original version was first radio, then wire guided, with the operator
eyeballing the track from the launch aircraft. The switch to wire was made
after the Brits found it's R/C frequencies and jammed them. IIRC it was used
to sink at least one warship. The TV guided version never saw service, but
they did make it work, though not perfectly, and it inspired the Walleye
glide bomb and Maverick ASM amongst others. To fit a vaccuum tube tv camera
and transmitter into a small enough package using WW2 tech was a feat of
electronics never before attempted.
This is new to me. Lets not forget the almost technology -- "The skip
bomber"?.
The idea was you would fly into space,then bounce of the Earth's
atmosphere
once, drop your bomb on New York and bounce again and keep bouncing
until
you land in Japan. The real details could be different but you get the
idea.
Geoff In Oz
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