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To: C19fan
The Snark, America’s First Strategic Cruise Missile Was Totally Useless

That's because it never blew anything up. It would just sit on the launch pad making catty and sarcastic comments about the enemy.

9 posted on 04/14/2015 6:49:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Lazamataz

Well, the whole “cruise missile” warfare for the Navy and Army started with the remake of the German V-1 into US flying German V-1’s, US making copies of the original to support the Japanese invasion, then US-improving the V-1 into new models, which became the Loon, then its replacements through Navy’s Regulus, Snark, etc.

Just like US Army shooting off captured V-1’s at White Sands/El Paso, then building improved V-1’s, then building the Redstone and Jupiter, then the Atlas, Saturn’s engines, etc. Yes, the original machinery concept was German, but the US flying models improved on that foundation.


18 posted on 04/14/2015 7:14:00 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Lazamataz
The Snark, America’s First Strategic Cruise Missile Was Totally Useless

That's because it never blew anything up. It would just sit on the launch pad making catty and sarcastic comments about the enemy.

What a snarky comment! LOL!!!

35 posted on 04/14/2015 11:39:39 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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