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Ke-Go
Ke-Go was one of the first guided weapons, deployed by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal. Testing three models of the first bombs were made in early 1945. The bombs were dropped on the heat target 10 × 30 meters (the fire burning on the raft). The results were not satisfactory, despite the fact that the homing head worked quite satisfactorily. Only 5 or 6 out of 50 bombs dropped hit the target. Based on these results, the fleet created two new models with improved guidance, but by the time the bombs were ready for testing, the war ended. See also * Bat (U.S. Navy radar-guided bomb) * Fritz X * Ohka * Project Pigeon * Gargoyle * GB-4 * GB-8 * Kehl-Strasbourg radio control link, for MCLOS control of WW II German PGM ordnance * List of anti-ship missiles * List of World War II guided missiles of Germany * Kramer X4- Max Kramer's air-to-air guided missile * Funryu * Kawasaki Ki-147 I-Go Type1 – Ko * Kawasaki Ki-148 * Nikitin PSN-1 * Nikitin PSN-2 The Nikitin PSN-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funryu
were a series of surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles developed in Japan at the end of the Second World War. The missile's development in the late stages of the war was plagued by organisational problems and cancelled before becoming operational. In 1945, a few samples of SAM ''Funryu'' were created and tested, but due to the surrender of the Japanese Empire, had not been finalized. All the developments on the complex were destroyed after the end of hostilities. The first design was the Funryu 1 and it was an air-to-surface missile (ASM) whose specific role was anti-shipping. Funryu 1 was much like a miniature airplane. The warhead contained of explosive and guidance was via radio control. Testing of the Funryu 1 was conducted with the missile being dropped from a modified Mitsubishi G4M bomber. However, since it would require a significant amount of time to effectively control the missile in flight and with the increase of US bombing raids against Japan, it was decided that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart Bombs
A guided bomb (also known as a smart bomb, guided bomb unit, or GBU) is a precision-guided munition designed to achieve a smaller circular error probable (CEP). The creation of precision-guided munitions resulted in the retroactive renaming of older bombs as unguided bombs or "dumb bombs". Guidance Guided bombs carry a guidance system which is usually monitored and controlled from an external device. A guided bomb of a given weight must carry fewer explosives to accommodate the guidance mechanisms. Radio The Germans were first to introduce Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) in combat, using the 1,400-kg (3,100 lb) MCLOS-guidance Fritz X to successfully attack the Italian battleship ''Roma'' in September 1943. The closest Allied equivalents were the 1,000-lb (454 kg) AZON (AZimuth ONly), used in both Europe and the CBI Theater, and the US Navy's Bat, primarily used in the Pacific Theater of World War II which used autonomous, on-board radar guidance. In additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kehl-Strasbourg Radio Control Link
The Kehl-Straßburg radio control link was a German MCLOS radio control system of World War II. The system was named for Strasbourg, the French/German city on the Rhine and Kehl, at the time a suburb of Strasbourg. It was used by the Fritz X guided bomb and the Henschel Hs 293 guided missile, and would also be trialled in test of the Henschel Hs 298 MCLOS-guidance air-to-air missile. Description The generic term ''Funkgerät'', the source for the ''FuG'' prefix, translates directly into "radio equipment" in English (funk - radio; gerät - equipment), and also prefixed the designations of other various types of German military electronics, like the ''Lichtenstein'' and ''Neptun'' airborne intercept radar series, and the ''Erstling'' IFF radio gear, among others. The ''Kehl-Straßburg'' system combined two units. The dual-axis, single-joystick-equipped ''Funkgerät (FuG 203) Kehl'' series of radio-control transmitter sets, fitted aboard the launch aircraft, were used to send ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II Guided Missiles
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Nikitin PSN-2
The Nikitin PSN-2, (''Planer Spetsial'nogo Naznachenaya'' - glider for special purpose) was a single seat Glider aircraft, glider bomb research aircraft designed and produced in the USSR from 1934. Development The PSN-2 was a glider floatplane designed to test the concept and guidance equipment for a range of guided glider bombs proposed by S.F. Valk in 1933. Constructed of wood, the PSN-2 was a sleek monoplane aircraft with two floats attached to the wing with struts, an open cockpit in the extreme nose of the fuselage and extra fins at the aft end of each float. The PSN-2 could be carried aloft under a mother-ship or aero-towed off water. Beaching gear was available for manoeuvring the aircraft when not on the water. The planned mission of the pilotless production version of PSN-2 included a 40 km(25.85 mile) range flown at 700 km/h(435 mph), guided to the target with the KVANT Infra-red guidance system. Flight testing was carried out in 1940, but work was disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikitin PSN-1
The Nikitin PSN-1 was a piloted glider anti-shipping missile produced in the USSR from 1937. Development From 1933 a series of special projects was initiated under the PSN banner (''Planer Spetsial'nogo Naznachenaya'' - Glider for Special Purposes). A proposal was made by S.F. Valk for a glider anti-shipping bomb with Infra-Red guidance, which was expanded to include DPT (long-range glider torpedo), LTDD (Long-range flying torpedo) and BMP (towed mine glider). To evaluate the ''Kvant'' Infra-Red guidance a piloted version was produced as the Nikitin PSN-1. Nikitin and Mikhelson designed a small single-seat monoplane flying boat glider with floats at approx 1/2 span, carrying a torpedo underneath. The PSN-1 was carried aloft by either Tupolev TB-3 The Tupolev TB-3 (russian: Тяжёлый Бомбардировщик, Tyazhyolyy Bombardirovshchik, Heavy Bomber, civilian designation ANT-6) was a monoplane heavy bomber deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and used durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawasaki Ki-148
Kawasaki Igo-1-B, otherwise known as Kawasaki Ki-148 was a World War II Japanese guided air-to-surface missile designed in 1944. Developed along its sister projects of Kawasaki Igo-1-A and Tokyo Imperial University designed Igo-1-C, the Igo-1-B was a simple radio-controlled guided bomb propelled by a rocket engine generating of thrust for up to 80 seconds. Test trials were carried out in late 1944 and the weapon was quickly ordered by the war ministry. Launched during tests from a modified Kawasaki Ki-48 light bomber, its standard mother aircraft was to be the modern Kawasaki Ki-102 heavy fighter. Although approximately 180 missiles were built, none saw service before the end of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... References ;Bibliography * Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawasaki Ki-147 I-Go Type1 – Ko
Kawasaki Ki-147 I-Go Type1 – Ko was a radio-guided air to surface missile used by Empire of Japan, Japan in World War II. Specifications *Length: *Wing Span: *Height: *Wing Area: 3.60 square metres *All-Up Weight: 1,400 kg *Main Engine: 1 x Mitsubishi Tokuro-1 Type 3 Rocket (240 kg) *Max Speed: 550 km/h *Range: 11 km *Warhead: 800 kg References * * * External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20110927220328/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200D-0550-0575%20Report%200-02.pdf *http://en.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/12691 World War II weapons of Japan, Guided missiles World War II guided missiles {{missile-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kramer X4
The Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 or Ruhrstahl-Kramer RK 344 was a wire-guided air-to-air missile designed by Germany during World War II. The X-4 did not see operational service and thus was not proven in combat but inspired considerable post-war work around the world, and was the basis for the development of several ground-launched anti-tank missiles, including the Malkara. History During 1943, the RAF's Bomber Command and the US Air Force mounted a series of heavy raids against Germany. Despite heavy bomber losses, these prompted ''Luftwaffe'' research into considerably more powerful anti-bomber weaponry in order to reduce the cost in lost fighter aircraft and aircrew. A massive development effort resulted in a number of heavy-calibre autocannon designs, air-to-air rockets, SAMs, and the X-4. Work on the X-4 began in June 1943, by Dr Max Kramer at . The idea was to build a missile with enough range to allow it to be fired from outside the range of the bombers' guns (what is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Guided Missiles Of Germany
During World War II, Nazi Germany developed many missile and precision-guided munition systems. These included the first cruise missile, the first short-range ballistic missile, the first guided surface-to-air missiles, and the first anti-ship missiles. Organisations * Peenemünde rocket test site People involved * Wernher von Braun * Walter Dornberger * Walter Thiel * Max Kramer * Herbert A. Wagner Models Surface-to-surface missiles The V-1, which may be seen as the first cruise missile, was used operationally against London and Antwerp. The V-2 ballistic missile was used operationally against London, Antwerp, and other targets. The Rheinbote was fired against Antwerp. * V-1 (flying bomb), V-1 flying bomb * V-2 rocket * Rheinbote * Aggregate (rocket family)#A4b/A9, A4b Surface-to-air missiles Germany developed a number of surface-to-air missile systems, none of which was used operationally: * Enzian missile, Enzian (Gentiana, Gentian) * Rheintochter (Rhine Daughter) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Anti-ship Missiles
This is a list of anti-ship missiles. World War II * BHT-38 – France * Ruhrstahl/Kramer SD 1400 X (Fritz X) — Nazi Germany * Henschel Hs 293 — Nazi Germany * Henschel Hs 294 — Nazi Germany * Blohm & Voss BV 143 — Nazi Germany (prototype) * Blohm + Voss BV 246 (''Hagelkorn'') — Nazi Germany (prototype) * Igo – Empire of Japan * Ohka piloted suicide missile – Empire of Japan * Bat – United States Used in combat only once. Asia India *BrahMos – Supersonic cruise missile (range of 650 km) jointly developed by India and Russia. * Nirbhay – Anti-ship cruise missile with the range of 1000 km to 1500 km at the speed of 0.7 to 0.9 mach.(under development) * BrahMos-NG – Miniaturized version of the Brahmos. (under development) * BrahMos-II - Mach 7 Hypersonic cruise missile (range of 1000 km). (under development) *Dhanush – A system consisting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCLOS
Manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) is a method for guiding guided missiles. With an MCLOS missile, the operator must track the missile and the target simultaneously and guide the missile to the target. Typically the missile is steered with a joystick, and its path is observed through a periscope-type telescopic sight. The missiles are usually equipped with a magnesium flare in the base that automatically ignites on launch and allows the gunner to visually track the fast-moving missile in a manner similar in concept to tracer ammunition. MCLOS requires considerable training and practice to master, since even a minor disruption in the gunner's concentration would likely cause a miss. These guidance systems have marginal accuracy on tank-sized targets, even with perfect line-of-sight by the gunner, due to erratic flight paths requiring timely manual corrections. As demonstrated by the Israeli Army under fire from Soviet-armed Arab states, responding to the distinctive smoke puff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
