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RG_Lunatic said:I left out the free fall guided bombs. USA had them too. USA also had remote control B-17's that "suicided" into the target. JFK's older brother died in one arming it before he was to bail out.
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Radio Controlled Bomber Drone. Project Aphrodite. The idea was to pack an aged bomber with 10 tons of explosives and fly it into the impregnable submarine pens on the French coast. A pilot was required to get the bomber airborne and trimmed so that a controlling plane could fly it to the target. The first plane exploded over England before the pilot had bailed out. The pilot was Navy Lt Joseph Kennedy, eldest son of that family, who was being groomed for the presidency, a post later held by the second son, John F. Kennedy.
Sep 3, 1944 --A pilot took off in a torpex-laden drone Liberator from an airfield in England, set radio control and parachuted to the ground. The PV controlling the Liberator's flight, sought to hit submarine pens on Helgoland Island; however, he lost view of the plane in a rain shower during the final alignment and relying only upon the drone's television picture of the terrain hit the barracks and industrial area of an airfield on nearby Dune Island.
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DerAdlerIstGelandet said:The Germans were leading in technologocal designs but they did lack the resources and the time to finish most of there research. Given more time they could have been devastating. As said in other posts by other people I agree that the US had the better resources and industry in place.
Erich said:the ammo is inert from them and I have picked up several 2cm M rounds from them although the shell casings did not match the rounds.
Manions is a pretty good plae but also too you need to know your stuff as they have carried fakes and many overpriced depnazified items in the past. the web has huge stock loads of militaria sites with wonderful items so please do not limit yourslef to one spot where you have to bid agasint another bidder..........guess you could go to ebay
the lancaster kicks ass said:dude we used bolt actions, a highly trained soldier could fire 25 aimed rounds per minute (that was the figure before WWI, i know the standard of training was never the same after that...........)
plan_D said:Even with Americas huge economy, the Germans were still more advanced. The Americans achieved most things with notes from the British scientists, especially the atom bomb. As Britain was the first country to start researching the destructive power of splitting the atom. In 1939 moving all it scientists and research to America, with the German threat looming over them.
The Germans were well ahead in many things, and not far behind in those areas that they were. The main problem with the Americans (and British) on the ground was that they never designed things to get the edge over the enemy, only to catch up to them. Meanwhile the Germans and Russians were constantly striving to be one step ahead of one another, that's why their equipment just kept raising the bar when Western equipment (save electronical warfare - Britain was also raising the bar on that) was always trailing behind, trying its best to catch up.
And no one was even anywhere near the ability of the German rockets.