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To: DFG

...a predecessor of today’s guided cruise missiles...


2 posted on 11/06/2018 12:01:53 PM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

I read somewhere that the V3 (planned but not built) was going to be radar guided by receiving radio waves for a direction. Then either by range or by intersecting radio wave of a different frequency, they would cut their engines. This would have resulted in a FAR more accurate “bomb”


9 posted on 11/06/2018 12:27:41 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: McGruff

Fast prop planes would put their wing under the buzz bomb’s wing and tip it over sending it out of control. Great sport!


18 posted on 11/06/2018 12:57:55 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: McGruff

The USN had a mini-biplane version in development during WWI.

Not to be outdone, the US Army hired Charles Kettering to design one for them, but the war ended the work on both.


24 posted on 11/06/2018 1:15:29 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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