© 2015 raoul drapeau
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© 2015 Raoul Drapeau
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Atomic Bomb Radar (“RDF”)
Norden bombsight
(“Hit a pickle barrell”)
Chaff (“Window”)
Radar countermeasure
Proximity Fuze
(V-1, Kamikaze, Bulge)
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Visionary extraordinaire
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Steel in short supply for carriers.
No long-range escorts.
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But: Prone to rollovers
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150 bombers, unsinkable.
Carved from iceberg.
Speed, draft unimportant
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The Danger
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40 feet thick hull, refrigerated.
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Ice carrier: 2000 ft; 1,800,000 Tons
Hornet: 700 ft; 27,000 Tons
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Improved escort aircraft range.
War closing.
Impractical (cost, refrigeration/living conditions.
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Parachute drop (drift, attack).
Free drop
Retro rockets
14 Kings 2: “Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.”
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Uncontrollable orientation.
Ground sensing problem.
Too many variables.
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For clearing pressure-sensitive mines.
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Kicked up dust cloud, noise, frightful appearance.
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Balls on chains @ 100 RPM.
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Mine clearing on D-Day & afterwards.
Not as useful today.
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10 foot dia., 2000 lb explosives, 70 rockets.
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“I say, that didn’t work so well, either.”
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Uncontrollable direction.
Unworkable technology
Served purpose (publicity, diversion?)
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Lancaster heavy bomber
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500 mi.
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Attractive target.
Water for canals, industry, drinking.
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In Wales.
280 lbs, 10 ft depth.
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World record – 51 skips
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500 RPM (backwards)
60 ft altitude; 240 mph
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500 yds
Spotlight for altitude.
Torpedo net.
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Note backwards spin.
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Eder & Mohne dams breached, Sorpe damaged.
1650 killed (1026 POWs).
May 1943.
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Thought to be suicide mission (11/19 planes returned.)
Morale boost to UK.
Temporary inconvenience to Nazis.
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September 1940 storm.
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One of the British barrage balloons drifted over
southwest Finland...causing much havoc...
..electric cables...were wrenched away
and telephone poles were broken...
...the cable [broke] six stout power pylons
as though they were matches...
..the electric train service in west Sweden
was interrupted in at least seven places...
The whole province (in Denmark)
was cut off from power...
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500 mi.
Oops!
Double
Oops!
Prevailing
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London
1,000 balloons in 4 hours.
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6 lb incendiary “socks”
Catch in trees.
Divert resources.
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Phase-to-phase shorts.
German susceptibility.
Destroyed power station.
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24,000 Balloons
(wires)
510 Interruptions
Mar.20 Dec. 31
1:47 (2%)
[for 35p].
1942
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100,000 launched.
Fires started, power disrupted.
Resources diverted (fighter, fire).
Terminated before D-Day.
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Singer Sewing Machine Co.
To counter pending invasion of Britain.
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Massed troops in the open.
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30,000 in a projectile.
Hollow needle with poison.
Death in 30 sec.
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Mass formations unlikely.
Simple defensive tactic.
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A good thing.
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Dental surgeon, inventor.
Used own funds.
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Vacation visit to Carlsbad Caverns
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Roost in wooden buildings.
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Carry 2x own weight.
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26 trays of 40 bats each.
Release at night (in torpor).
On timer.
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Show & Tell gone wrong.
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Highly inflammable buildings.
“An effective weapon”
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APPROVED
Interesting, but too late (Atomic bomb).
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23rd
Hdqtrs. Special Troops.
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Simple defensive tactic.
Very effective.
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Trainable, predictable, tireless, fast, plentiful.
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Operant conditioning
- Repetition
- Positive reinforcement
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Three birds.
Trained for ship profiles.
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Only daytime.
Military couldn’t take it seriously.
Differing academic/military cultures.
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Dispose of ‘weary’ bombers.
For hardened targets.
10 tons of Torpex.
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Pilot takes off, bails out.
TV-guided from partner.
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V-3 Battery
Mimoyecques)
V-2 Battery (La Couple)
Submarine pen (Bordeaux)
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Volunteer pilot.
First example of “Kennedy Curse”.
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Radio controls not effective.
“Tallboy” effective.
Too risky for pilots.
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War stimulates creativity.
Most new weapons are too little & too late.
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Enigma
Vergeltungswaffe 1
(V-1)
Vergeltungswaffe 2
(V-2)
神風 (Kamikaze)
“Divine Wind”
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120 soldiers/tanks.
22 ton cargo capacity.
Jettisonable dolly.
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Badly underpowered.
H2O
2 rocket assist.
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Two HE-111 bombers with 5th
engine.
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Violent jerks.
Collision with glider.
Underpowered.
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Reduced payload,10 tons; 600 mile range.
200 made.
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Plywood & canvas, steel frame.
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Clamshell nose.
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C-130
Gigant
Waco CG-4A
(13 troops)
100 ft
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200 built.
But end of the war.
Very slow & vulnerable.
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Wood construction.
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Massed bombers.
Too few fighters & pilots.
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Fast, but short-lived.
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To blast off from simple launchers.
(Airfields bombed).
80 sec. to altitude.
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24 nose-mounted rockets.
Pilot ejects, fuselage parachutes down.
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Extremely dangerous to fuel & fly (C & T-stoff).
‘Airports’ vulnerable.
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FW 190 fighter.
Ju-88 bomber (drone)
7500 lbs H.E.
shaped charge
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250 built.
Most against bridges.
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Slow, so easy to shoot down.
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Lockheed P-80
(June 1945)
Gloster Meteor
(June 1944).
[V-1 intercepts]
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Me262 landing vulnerability (P-47).
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Hitler hated defensive weapons.
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Materials shortages.
AvGas & pilot shortages.
Airfields vulnerable.
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550 mph.
Liquid fuel rocket.
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Dangerous dolly.
Short attacks (speed).
Only make few passes.
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Deadly – to the pilot.
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Note protective suit .
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Highly toxic, explosive.
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Extremely dangerous to fuel, fly, land.
Short range.
Vulnerable on landing.
Too fast to shoot accurately.
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Air & Space Museum.
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Increase visual distance.
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Dangerous to pilot (dive).
Gave away position.
Used only in Indian Ocean.
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4 ft L x 2 ft W.
200 lb explosives.
5,000 produced.
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Gasoline engine.
Joystick control by cable.
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Slow.
Vulnerable to tank fire.
Used in Warsaw ghetto.
129 Sectional mega-cannon
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Mimoyecques
London
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Insufficient range (30 mi.).
Design difficulties.
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Shell propelled by rockets ignited by hot gases.
Modest barrel strength.
High velocity = great range.
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Aftermath of failed test.
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Main
Booster
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300 lbs shell.
150 mm dia. (6”)
5000 fps muzzle velocity.
95 mi. range (?).
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Destroyed with 12,000 lb “Tall Boy” bomb.
10,000 slave laborers drowned.
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Unreliable (explodes).
Unworkable concept (timing).
Too-small shell.
Fixed site vulnerable.
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To give U-Boats an edge in 1943.
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U-Boat captains “lost” them at sea.
[Dangerous to crew].
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H2 + O
2 = Projectile of water vapor.
Broke board at 200 yds.
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Insufficient range for A-A.
Never used.
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Vortex disturbance to down planes.
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12 ft barrel, 150 L acetylene.
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Insufficient range for A-A.
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Militarized rock concert.
Continuous explosion = high-intensity shockwave.
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Too much power needed.
British experimented, too.
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30, 60, 90 degree versions.
Clearing enemy troops from tank.
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Urban warfare.
Bullets fragmented (but OK).
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Short lifetime (150 rounds).
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U.S. unprepared.
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16 B-25s.
Revenge for Pearl Harbor.
Morale booster for U.S.
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Revenge for Tokyo.
Save face.
First intercontinental weapon.
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33 ft diameter.
1000 lb payload.
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Wintertime best winds.
30,000 ft.
3 day flight.
Day 1
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10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000 ft
CA COJapan
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
Expand Contract
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But wettest season.
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Ballast bags
Explosive
plugs
Battery,
timer,
altimeter
Incendiary
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9,000 launched
300 landing reports.
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Dangerous.
News embargo.
Family killed on picnic.
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Failed design (many landed intact).
Against weather patterns.
Censorship effective.
Japan assumed all failed.
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Rocket-propelled, manned bomb.
400 mph burst of speed.
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Used at Okinawa.
10 sec boost.
800 built.
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Mitsubishi G4M2E “Betty”
MXY7 Ohka Mod. 11
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Effective.
Too few suicide pilots.
Short range, mother plane vulnerable.
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War stimulates creativity.
Desperation creates ever-weirder weapons.
Leaders can sabotage their own cause.
Most new weapons are too little & too late.
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Coal dust + fuel in a barrel.
Barrel shape important.
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