was this program an act of Allied
desperation wasn’t there any kind of
other way to hit these islands the
Aphrodite program is the Allied version
of the Japanese kamikazes
in the Japanese case they had
self-sacrificial pilots who were willing
to fly the planes themselves into the
target the Allies of course were not
willing to do that and therefore they
had to find a technological solution and
so for the Allies we developed this the
system by which we’re using these
remotely controlled bombers these planes
were literally explosive flying coffins
packed with unstable dynamite lumbering
into the air barely under control
rigged with barely functioning
electronics so it’s not surprising that
it proved difficult to integrate all
these technologies at this early stage
the V weapons were intended to strike
back for the terrible damage that the
Allied bombers were doing to Germany dr.
Goebel the v3 was a very long barreled
gun the projectile was fired and it
would be accelerated further by other
explosive charges so that the shell
developed enormous speeds and was
therefore able to fly over the distances
required to hit London from the V weapon
site at Memory yet in german-occupied
France the particular targets such as
memory Ecch
the very heavily hardened targets posed
difficult problems for the Allies
because conventional bombs weren’t able
to penetrate the thick concrete carapace
the Germans would pour lots and lots of
concrete so even the Allied bombing the
massive Allied bombing would not be
heavy enough to destroy what was
underneath drones become a part of the
super guns story because we wanted to
take them out the best explosive was
determined to be the British top X and
the pilots compartment is placed 1575
pounds the idea was that you could pack
an aircraft with explosives and fly it
directly into the target aphrodite
included a number of elements which
became standard in future drone programs
as the camera not only did they use
television which was in its infancy but
they figured out how to broadcast from
plane to plane and use those pictures in
real time to fly the airplanes remotely
it’s pretty ingenious and all in 1944
when many people hadn’t even heard the
word television let alone owned one
you
desperation wasn’t there any kind of
other way to hit these islands the
Aphrodite program is the Allied version
of the Japanese kamikazes
in the Japanese case they had
self-sacrificial pilots who were willing
to fly the planes themselves into the
target the Allies of course were not
willing to do that and therefore they
had to find a technological solution and
so for the Allies we developed this the
system by which we’re using these
remotely controlled bombers these planes
were literally explosive flying coffins
packed with unstable dynamite lumbering
into the air barely under control
rigged with barely functioning
electronics so it’s not surprising that
it proved difficult to integrate all
these technologies at this early stage
the V weapons were intended to strike
back for the terrible damage that the
Allied bombers were doing to Germany dr.
Goebel the v3 was a very long barreled
gun the projectile was fired and it
would be accelerated further by other
explosive charges so that the shell
developed enormous speeds and was
therefore able to fly over the distances
required to hit London from the V weapon
site at Memory yet in german-occupied
France the particular targets such as
memory Ecch
the very heavily hardened targets posed
difficult problems for the Allies
because conventional bombs weren’t able
to penetrate the thick concrete carapace
the Germans would pour lots and lots of
concrete so even the Allied bombing the
massive Allied bombing would not be
heavy enough to destroy what was
underneath drones become a part of the
super guns story because we wanted to
take them out the best explosive was
determined to be the British top X and
the pilots compartment is placed 1575
pounds the idea was that you could pack
an aircraft with explosives and fly it
directly into the target aphrodite
included a number of elements which
became standard in future drone programs
as the camera not only did they use
television which was in its infancy but
they figured out how to broadcast from
plane to plane and use those pictures in
real time to fly the airplanes remotely
it’s pretty ingenious and all in 1944
when many people hadn’t even heard the
word television let alone owned one
you
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