New German Rocket Weapons
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New German Rocket Weapons
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Rocket-Glider Bomb Is New Nazi Weapon
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NOW we know what one of Germany's
long-promised secret weapons is: a
rocket-propelled, radio-controlled glider
bomb. Winston Churchill himself broke the
news, describing “a sort of rocket-assisted
glider which releases its bombs from a
height and is directed towards its target
by a parent aircraft.”
Whatever the design and operation of the
new weapon, the Allies undoubtedly have
anticipated it and have prepared defenses
against it, for radio-controlled aerial bombs
were experimented with during the last days
of World War I. Although, theoretically, it
may be released from a plane beyond anti-
aircraft range and acquire great penetration
from its rocket power, it must be followed
by eye to its target—impossible under many
conditions—and might conceivably be di-
verted through jamming of its operational
wave band. Staff artist Stewart Rouse
presents a possible design. Another type
might jettison its wings over the target
to become a free-falling bomb with a rocket
jet at the rear to speed its fall.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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67
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 143, n. 6, 1943
