A flying bomb is a manned or unmanned aerial vehicle or aircraft carrying a large explosive warhead, a precursor to contemporary cruise missiles. In contrast...
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The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation...
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V-2 rocket (redirect from V-2 flying bomb)
the speed of sound, gave no warning before impact (unlike bombing planes or the V-1 flying bomb, which made a characteristic buzzing sound). There was no...
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Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane (redirect from Curtiss-Sperry Flying Bomb)
Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop a flying bomb, or pilotless aircraft capable of carrying explosives to its target....
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(designated 109-014 by the RLM) was a pulsejet engine used on the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II, and the first model of pulsejet engine placed in mass...
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Wunderwaffe (section Bombs and explosives)
aircraft. Fieseler Fi 103R "Reichenberg" – a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb. Focke-Wulf "Triebflügel" (Powered Wings) – a planned tip jet rotorcraft...
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known example is the Argus As 109-014 used to propel Nazi Germany's V-1 flying bomb. Pulsejet engines are a lightweight form of jet propulsion, but usually...
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H. E. Bates (redirect from Flying Officer 'X')
was also commissioned by the Air Ministry to write The Battle of the Flying Bomb, but because of various disagreements within the government, it was cancelled...
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Rocket U-boat (section V-1 flying bombs)
Peenemünde Army Research Center, aimed to develop submarine-launched rockets, flying bombs and missiles. The Kriegsmarine (German Navy) did not use submarine-launched...
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To carry out the planned V-1 "flying bomb" attacks on the United Kingdom, Germany built a number of military installations including launching sites and...
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