[Milsurplus] ineffective ballastic bombing of ships

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

The link to Wikipedia did not work.Probably a national security issue...
Jay





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From: boeing377 at aol.com
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, Jul 13, 2009 1:13 pm
Subject: [Milsurplus] ineffective ballastic bombing of ships



Check out this WW 2 weapon: a radar guided air launched anti shipping 
missile.
It came late in WW 2, had bugs, but it did sink at least one enemy 
ship. Further
developed this would have totally changed the bomber vs ship equation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_(guided_bomb)

We are really lucky the Germans didn't develop an effective proximity 
fuse for
AA weapons. Their AA rockets and artillery never had good proximity 
fuses and
relied instead on accurate aiming. Those of you who attended Steve 
Blank's
fascinating lecture at the last Radiofest in Monterey learned how 
extensive and
sophisticated their AA radar network was. If you didn't attend, check 
out the
link below, really amazing historical info. I have read a lot about WW 
2
aviation and had no idea how far the Germans had developed their 
networked radar
systems. You hear lots about the British Chain Home HF radar air 
defense system
but not much about Germany's ground and airborne systems.

http://steveblank.com/2009/04/27/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-part-vi-the-secret-life-of-fred-terman-and-stanford/

73,
Mark
AF6IM

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