Russian rocket bomb and german rocket guns
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Russian rocket bomb and german rocket guns
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Rockets gain punch
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Subtitle: Stepped-up firepower is sought by improvements in projectiles
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BOTH our Russian allies and the Germans
have recently brought into play some
new ideas in rocket explosives, the former
seeming to have attained by far the greater
success as measured by reports from the
front. The essential differences in the prac-
tice of the two are that the Germans lean
to ground-to-ground and plane-to-plane use
of the fast-moving explosives, while the
Russians employ their rocket as a bomb
from plane-to-ground installations.
German rocket guns throw their pro-
jectiles in a lob at enemy ground positions
and have gained range from the series of
blasts that sends the explosive shell forward
in a succession of leaps. What the Nazis
can do with their glant cross-Channel
“secret” rockets remains to be seen. Plane-
to-plane fighting, however, after an initial
success against Flying Fortresses, ran into
a simple American defense. Extra fuel
tanks enabled fast Thunderbolts and Light-
nings to cover bombers on an entire mission
and pick off the slower rocket planes.
The Russian rocket bomb has been par-
ticularly effective against German tanks,
while their planes were subjected to no
more than the ordinary flak defense.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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G. H. Davis (illustrator)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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76-77
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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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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 3, 1944
