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brady · « **on:** April 24, 2003, 02:18:30 PM »

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SELECTOR · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2003, 03:03:20 PM »

some type of torpedo... i think they are test models of some kind

BlackCross · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2003, 04:08:56 PM »

Hagelkorn German glide bomb. Was used for anti-ship bombing. Radio guided or standard unguided standoff bombing of ships. The wings were cast concreat with an anhedral so that it would "spring" away from the mother craft.

Kevin14 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2003, 04:39:54 PM »

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Originally posted by BlackCross
Hagelkorn German glide bomb. Was used for anti-ship bombing. Radio guided or standard unguided standoff bombing of ships. The wings were cast concreat with an anhedral so that it would "spring" away from the mother craft.

Concrete wings? Whoa, so much for gliding

BlackCross · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2003, 05:25:38 PM »

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Concrete wings? Whoa, so much for gliding

Yes it could glide very far, had a glide ratio of 1:25. Hey I want this as a loadout option. Yea load up a buntch of FW F-8's and climb to 25k and look out enemy HQ

brady · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2003, 04:16:47 PM »

BV 246 (Hagelkorn ), it is:)

some 1100 were made by Feb. 44, Large Numbers of them Being Launched operationaly by FW 190F-8's, Some of them were fitted with a pasive "Radieschen" Radar homing head, the Hagelkorn in the foreground is beleaved to be fited with such a homing head.

SixxGunn · « **Reply #6 on:** April 25, 2003, 04:50:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Kevin14
Concrete wings? Whoa, so much for gliding

Concrete had lots of uses in WWII.

Some steamships were even constructed of concrete, and yes they floated.

Some were used during the Normandy Invasion and once supplies were offloaded they were sunk to create the break water area for the Floating Port that was constructed.

http://www.concreteships.org