Hi people,
Recently I was reading David K Brown's work on British naval design ( Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Design and Development 1923-45), and here this description about what he referred to as "B bomb" caught my attention.
Unfortunately I could not find much information about it...
The GB 3/L was a glide bomb project based on the aerodynamic solutions developed for the Lippisch P.12 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug.
Designed in July 1944 to compete against the antiship missile Henschel Hs 293D, it could transport a warhead of 250 kg at 800 km/h and reach...
1944
anti-shipbombanti-ship missile
axis powers
early 1940s
glide bomb
guided weapon
luftwaffe
nazi germany
ramjet
reich ministry of armaments and war production
reichsluftfahrtministerium
rocket
third reich
world war ii
Hello! I'm currently searching the data about this little guy:
This is BHT-38 (Bombe Hurel-Turck) radio-controlled glide bomb, designed for French military shortly before World War 2. It was supposed to have a weight about 160 kg. Some examples were tested in 1940, but Fall of the France...
1940s
anti-shipanti-shipbomb
armeé de l'air
forces aériennes françaises libres
forces françaises libres
france libre
french fourth republic
french third republic
guided weapon
interwar period
late 1930s
marine nationale
post-world war ii
pre-world war ii
provisional government of the french republic
vichy france
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