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launching V-1s from an aircraft carrier
Setting the gyros would be the difficult part. The V-1 took quite a while to
set and ship's movement would cause a real problem. v/r Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Aircrew "Got anything on your radar, SENSO?" "Nothing but my forehead, sir." |
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"Gordon" wrote in message ... | Setting the gyros would be the difficult part. The V-1 took quite a while to | set and ship's movement would cause a real problem. | | v/r | Gordon | ====(A+C==== | USN SAR Aircrew | | This is the 'wooden hammer' concerto ? Always amused me, beating a flying bomb with sticks, has a certain 'duck & rabbit season' feel to it. Cheers Dave Kearton |
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Glen Edwards was involved in a test at Wendover in the summer of 1945, in which two V-1s were fired from underwing mounts on a B-17. This was part of the run-up to the invasion of Japan, like the preparations for the Twin Mustang (with which he was also involved). So it would seem that stand-off missiles a heavy bomber was the direction in which the USAAF was looking. (Northrop was at that time building its own version of the V-1.) all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at http://www.danford.net/index.htm Vietnam | Flying Tigers | Pacific War | Brewster Buffalo | Piper Cub |
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"The Blue Max" wrote in message s.com... Ignoring the political, economic, and strategic issues around the matter, what would have been the technical problems involved in launching V-1s from a completed CV Graf Zeppelin? Mostly keeping the ship afloat, the RN and RAF would make a maximum effort against such a target. I assume one would be limited to city-sized targets; would the sort of catapult fitted to GZ have been capable of hefting a V-1 into the air? It wouldnt need one, the ship was large enough to mount a launching ramp on. Of course it wouldnt have been able to hit anything worth a damm unless very well stabilised. Keith |
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message ... Glen Edwards was involved in a test at Wendover in the summer of 1945, in which two V-1s were fired from underwing mounts on a B-17. This was part of the run-up to the invasion of Japan, like the preparations for the Twin Mustang (with which he was also involved). So it would seem that stand-off missiles a heavy bomber was the direction in which the USAAF was looking. The Luftwaffe launched V-1's from He-111's during the war and the US was already developing stand off weapons such as the Bat Bomb Keith |
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"The Blue Max" wrote in message s.com... Yep, although if the UK had been removed from hostilities, it might just about have been feasible to get a GZ into position to launch some sort of Doolittle-type sneak raid on the USEC. I saw a documentary that said the Germans were building a submersible trailer for a U-boat that could launch a V-2. Plan being to tow hem across the Atlantic and launch into the United States. Si |
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In the 1950s we regularly launched the Regulus missile from
aircraft carriers, cruisers or submarines. The Regulus had the same turbojet engine as did the T-33 [T-2V] advanced pilot trainer of the 1950s and carried a nuclear warhead. It was command controlled from either the launching ship or from our FJ-3D carrier based fighter planes. WDA end "The Blue Max" wrote in message s.com... Ignoring the political, economic, and strategic issues around the matter, what would have been the technical problems involved in launching V-1s from a completed CV Graf Zeppelin? I assume one would be limited to city-sized targets; would the sort of catapult fitted to GZ have been capable of hefting a V-1 into the air? -- Et qui rit des cures d'Oc? De Meuse raines, houp! de cloques. De quelles loques ce turqe coin. Et ne d'anes ni rennes, Ecuries des cures d'Oc. |
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"Simon Robbins" wrote in message ... "The Blue Max" wrote in message s.com... Yep, although if the UK had been removed from hostilities, it might just about have been feasible to get a GZ into position to launch some sort of Doolittle-type sneak raid on the USEC. I saw a documentary that said the Germans were building a submersible trailer for a U-boat that could launch a V-2. Plan being to tow hem across the Atlantic and launch into the United States. Si Yeah I've seen the reports too, the Nazis were full of great ideas to waste invaluable resources and u-boats, I suppose we should be thankful they didnt get round to sensible projects like actually training enough pilots for all the planes they built. Keith |
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"Simon Robbins" wrote in message ...
"The Blue Max" wrote in message s.com... Yep, although if the UK had been removed from hostilities, it might just about have been feasible to get a GZ into position to launch some sort of Doolittle-type sneak raid on the USEC. I saw a documentary that said the Germans were building a submersible trailer for a U-boat that could launch a V-2. They quite possibly did. According to reports in 1944, three U-boats U-24, U-9 and U-19 equipped with rocket launchers were allegedly deployed against Soviet harbor facilities and moored ships during the German retreat. If this is true it was the first combat use of a submarine-launched missile. |
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