Fritz X - Wikipedia
Fritz X was a German guided anti-ship glide bomb used during World War II. Fritz X was the world's first precision guided weapon deployed in combat [1] and the first to sink a ship in combat. Fritz X was a nickname used both by Allied and Luftwaffe personnel.
Guided bomb - Wikipedia
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). [1] [2] The creation of precision-guided munitions resulted in the retroactive renaming of older bombs as unguided bombs or "dumb bombs".
Henschel Hs 293 - Wikipedia
The Henschel Hs 293 was a World War II German radio-guided glide bomb. It is the first operational anti-shipping missile, first used unsuccessfully on 25 August 1943 and then with increasing success over the next year, damaging or sinking at least 25 ships.
Hitler's Precision-Guided Bombs: Fritz X & Hs 293 - The National …
Later versions of the bomb were controlled by wire with a spool paying out during the drop. While jamming was an effective counter, Allied air patrols also began flying at higher altitudes scanning the skies for Fritz X armed bombers.
Hs 293 A-1 Missile - National Air and Space Museum
A bombardier guided the missile by means of a joy stick and radio control. Beginning in mid-1943, Hs 293s sank several Allied ships, mostly in the Mediterranean theater. Although Germany developed many experimental versions, only the Hs 293 A-1 was produced in quantity.
VB-1 Azon Guided Bomb - National Museum of the USAF
The VB-1 (VB for vertical bomb) was a 1,000-pound bomb fitted with a tail assembly containing radio-controlled movable rudders. These permitted the bombardier to attain greater accuracy by steering the bomb to the right or left (referred to as azimuth, hence the name Azon) after its release from the carrier aircraft.
A Nazi attack on an ally's warships introduced the world to a …
Sep 28, 2021 · USS Savannah is hit by a German radio-controlled glide bomb while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, September 11, 1943.
WWII: How Canadian scientists decoded a Nazi war machine
Mar 13, 2017 · These "glide bombs" were remotely-controlled — via joystick — from the planes that dropped, then guided them to hit the Allied ships. The new weapons threatened to wipe out the entire Allied...
The Saga of the Bird-Brained Bombers | NIST - National …
Aug 29, 2017 · Despite the success of Project Pigeon, pigeon-piloted bombs were never used in WWII. Instead, the Navy brass decided to go with a radio-based echolocation guidance system developed by Western Electric Co., and the NIST-built glide bomb saw action in the Pacific toward the end of WWII.
unguided bombs with miss distances often exceeding thousands of feet. Following World War One the British Royal Air Force developed a radio controlled glide bomb in the 1920™s called the Larynx. The Larynx was first used against Iraq in 1925 to control small native uprisings. By 1926 interest in guided bombs faded when the British Air Staff