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Title: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Rino on June 29, 2009, 03:54:15 PM
     I finally found something that the suicide land grabbers can get behind!  :aok

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/bq-4.html (http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/bq-4.html)

     It's perfect, can go in midwar, was used in squadron service and actually worked
about 1/3 of the time!  No more Lightning/Typhoon cruise missiles  :rofl
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Anodizer on June 29, 2009, 05:05:22 PM
     I finally found something that the suicide land grabbers can get behind!  :aok

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/bq-4.html (http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/bq-4.html)

     It's perfect, can go in midwar, was used in squadron service and actually worked
about 1/3 of the time!  No more Lightning/Typhoon cruise missiles  :rofl

Germans had something similar but it was a remotely guided missile with a T.V. camera..  It was launched from a Ju-88 iirc and was used to intercept and destroy
bombers..  I'm not sure that it was operational before the end of the war..  I'm too lazy to look this up but I'm thinking it was the Rurstal or something like that..
Was years ago on Discovery (before Discovery Wings or Military Channel (wings of the luftwaffe) that I saw this...
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: branch37 on June 29, 2009, 06:23:32 PM
i watch wings of the luftwaffe all the time and i saw that episode yesterday......although i thought it was more of a remote controlled V-1 Buzzbomb.  or something like that
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Anodizer on June 29, 2009, 08:27:11 PM
i watch wings of the luftwaffe all the time and i saw that episode yesterday......although i thought it was more of a remote controlled V-1 Buzzbomb.  or something like that

Nah, it was a finned, not winged, missile...
Looked like this...
(http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/missiles/images/x4_dm.jpg)
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: TonyJoey on June 29, 2009, 08:38:39 PM
Nah, it was a finned, not winged, missile...
Looked like this...
(http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/missiles/images/x4_dm.jpg)


Isn't that called an X-4, or something? Could be mistaken, but somewhere remember seeing X-4 attached with that pic.
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: hubsonfire on June 29, 2009, 09:59:21 PM
 :lol I fear Phan has been turned to the dark side.
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Rino on June 29, 2009, 10:05:44 PM
:lol I fear Phan has been turned to the dark side.

     Oh come on, what could be more fun that chasing clouds of slow drones
laden with 2,000 pounds of explosive?  :D
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: OOZ662 on June 29, 2009, 11:26:43 PM
The Germans were also toying with slinging JU-88s that had their cockpits replaced entirely with explosives to the underside of FW-190s to be chucked at large targets.
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: hubsonfire on June 30, 2009, 12:01:25 AM
     Oh come on, what could be more fun that chasing clouds of slow drones
laden with 2,000 pounds of explosive?  :D

Well, when you put it that way... you make a good point.  :devil
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Delirium on June 30, 2009, 12:14:53 AM
The Germans were also toying with slinging JU-88s that had their cockpits replaced entirely with explosives to the underside of FW-190s to be chucked at large targets.

They did more than toy with them, they were used operationally. Do a search for Ju88 Mistel aircraft.
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: OOZ662 on June 30, 2009, 12:16:25 AM
Yeah, I couldn't remember the name and hence couldn't look it up, so I didn't know if they were operational or not. :D
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Westy on June 30, 2009, 08:56:07 AM
Go batty! 1942 style

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/asm-n-2.html
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: hammer on June 30, 2009, 08:58:26 AM
This would be great. With this technology, the pilot could now simply sit behind a computer screen and use a joystick to guide the virtual plane anywhere he wanted it to go. Amazing!


.... hey, wait a minute.....

 :D
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: trigger2 on June 30, 2009, 10:24:06 AM
This would be great. With this technology, the pilot could now simply sit behind a computer screen and use a joystick to guide the virtual plane anywhere he wanted it to go. Amazing!

........





Woah...

Baby steps...baby steps...
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Guppy35 on June 30, 2009, 03:51:36 PM
Well if we're going to have a drone, I'd think a war weary B17 or B24 filled with Torpex would be the way to go.  The suicide 4 engine bomber guys would have an excuse then :)
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: texastc316 on June 30, 2009, 03:59:03 PM

We could have rides for 2 Kennedy's
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: AWwrgwy on June 30, 2009, 08:05:17 PM
Well if we're going to have a drone, I'd think a war weary B17 or B24 filled with Torpex would be the way to go.  The suicide 4 engine bomber guys would have an excuse then :)

Or a Mistel.

(http://www.rlm.at/galerie/02/mistel_originalfoto.790x525.jpg)

point and release.

Although, I'm against it.

 :devil


wrongway
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: Rino on June 30, 2009, 08:07:45 PM
     Wonder what those pilots thought about their "passenger" before
they launched it? :)
Title: Re: Whoo Hoo A contender!
Post by: allaire on June 30, 2009, 11:46:22 PM
Lets hope I can get this off the ground without it exploding.