Guided weapons of WW2 minors

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After doing rather excessive work on World War-2 era guided weapons of Japan, Italy, Britain, France, USA and USSR, I'm now gathering the data about minor participants. Up to date, I found:

* Romanian radio-controlled tracked mine, invented by general Ion Eremia
* Hungarian acoustic-fused 44M Liderc anti-air rocket
* Australian "Wall & Ball" wake-following torpedo
* Australian Jeffery Land Torpedo tracked mine
* Swedish RB-310 pulsejet missile (granted, it is not actually World War 2, but development seems to be started in 1944)
* Polish "Żywe torpedy" - presumably, a suicide boat or submersible projects

Unfortunately, there are very little actual information about many of such projects. And in some cases, even if data existed and available, it's nearly impossible to get it (there are full data about Wall & Ball torpedo in Australian government archives, but in non-digital form, and due to pandemic, it's next thing to impossible for me to obtain it).

I would be extremely grateful for additional information about any of those projects - or any other project that I missed.
 
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I believe there was more info about the polish manned torpedoes on a previous thread about polish ww2 navy never-weres

And I know I've seen a picture of the romanian tracked mine, but I forget where
 
fortrena said:
RB 310-wise, the following may be of interest, Google Chrome giving you the possibility of translating the webpages. That translation is by no means perfect of course.
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Yep, knew this site. Thanks anyway!

natewillcome4you said:
I believe there was more info about the polish manned torpedoes on a previous thread about polish ww2 navy never-weres

And I know I've seen a picture of the romanian tracked mine, but I forget where
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To be exact, there are two pictures of questionable quality that exists of the Romanian tracked mine. Some interesting conclusions could be drawn from them (for example, I strongly suspect that Romanians tried to install primitive TV camera on it), but, alas, no coherent data.
 
As far as the 44M Lidérc is concerned, the following may be of interest. That said, I really do not know if the content is any good.

www.yumpu.com

44M „LIDÉRC” rocket I - E-EOD-A : the European Explosive ...

44M „LIDÉRC” rocket I - E-EOD-A : the European Explosive Read more about rocket, fuse, hungarian, artillery, microphone and ignition.
www.yumpu.com www.yumpu.com

hungarianweaponryww2.wixsite.com

Anti-tank/infantry Rockets

In 1942, to counteract the appearance of Soviet heavy tanks and the overall Soviet armor dominance, the Hungarian Institute of Military Science (HTI) started their own anti-tank rocket development Two years later, this development cycle resulted in two unguided anti-tank rocket systems, the 44.M...
hungarianweaponryww2.wixsite.com hungarianweaponryww2.wixsite.com
 
If I may, it looks as if the expression Żywe torpedy referred to Polish individuals who indicated their willingness to go on suicidal missions in 1939, if Germany attacked Poland. No submarine or piloted torpedo was developed.
 
fortrena said:
If I may, it looks as if the expression Żywe torpedy referred to Polish individuals who indicated their willingness to go on suicidal missions in 1939, if Germany attacked Poland. No submarine or piloted torpedo was developed.
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Well, there are rumors that SOMETHING was at least considered for design. Some of volunteers apparently described the "torpedoes" (presumably, a model of one). There seems to be two possible reconstruction: either Polish Navy worked on midget submarine, or very small one-man motor torpedo boat.
 

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