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Ke-Go
Ke-Go was one of the first Precision-guided munition, guided weapons, developed by the Imperial Japanese Army Ordnance Board. The Ke-Go was a free falling, infra-red guided, gyro-stabilized missile, intended to be dropped from airplanes onto shipping targets. The missile had eight wings in two cross-configurations, one set fore and one set aft. Output from the heat-seeking head was amplified to provide guidance control to flaps on the four forward wings. The main body was to hold an explosive charge behind the heat-seeking head. Development Toshiba#1939_to_2000, Tokyo Shibaura Denki Company began development of infrared seekers around March 1944, and Hideo Itokawa of the Nakajima Aircraft Company was tasked with the aerodynamic design of the missile. On September 5, 1944, a Land and Sea Technology Operation Committee was established to integrate science and technology for military purposes, and the Ke-Go project was included in one of the studies. The Army planned to produce 700 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funryu
were a series of Surface-to-air missile, surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles developed in Japan at the end of the Second World War. The missile's development in the late stages of the war was plagued by organizational problems and cancelled before becoming operational. In 1945, a few samples of SAM ''Funryu'' were created and tested, but due to the surrender of the Japanese Empire, had not been finalized. All the developments on the complex were destroyed after the end of hostilities. The first design was the Funryu 1, an air-to-surface missile (ASM) specialized for anti-shipping use. Funryu 1 was much like a miniature airplane. The warhead contained of explosive and guidance was via radio control. Testing of the Funryu 1 was conducted with the missile being dropped from a modified Mitsubishi G4M bomber. However, since perfecting the methods of controlling the missile in flight would take significant time and US bombing raids against Japan were intensifying at the time, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akio Morita
was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Early life Akio Morita was born in Nagoya. Morita's family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya (currently a part of Tokoname City) on the western coast of Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture since 1665. He was the oldest of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to take over the family business. Akio, however, found his true calling in mathematics and physics, and in 1944 he graduated from Osaka Imperial University with a degree in physics. He was later commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and served in World War II. During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka at a study group for developing infrared-guided bombs ( Ke-Go) in the Navy's Wartime Research Committee. Sony In September of 1945, Ibuka founded a radio repair shop in the bombed out Shirokiya Department Store in Nihonb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bat (guided Bomb)
The ASM-N-2 Bat was a United States Navy World War II radar-guided glide bomb which was used in combat beginning in April 1945. It was developed and overseen by a unit within the National Bureau of Standards (which unit later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory) with assistance from the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bell Telephone Laboratories. It is considered to be the first fully automated guided missile used in combat. Background In January 1941 RCA proposed a new TV-guided anti-shipping weapon, called Dragon, for which an operator would use the TV image sent from the nose of the weapon and operate aerodynamic controls during the weapon's fall. The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) would provide the airframe for use with a standard bomb, and was the same guidable ordnance airframe design used for the earlier, abortive Project Pigeon weapons program. The Pelican was a June 1942 modification using semi-active ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart Bombs
A guided bomb (also known as a smart bomb, guided bomb unit, or GBU) is a precision-guided munition designed to achieve a smaller circular error probable (CEP). The creation of precision-guided munitions resulted in the retroactive renaming of older bombs as unguided bombs or "dumb bombs". Guidance Guided bombs carry a guidance system which is usually monitored and controlled from an external device. A guided bomb of a given weight must carry fewer explosives to accommodate the guidance mechanisms. Radio The Germans were first to introduce precision guided munitions (PGMs) in combat, using the 1,400-kg (3,100 lb) MCLOS-guidance Fritz X to successfully attack the Italian battleship ''Roma'' in September 1943. The closest Allied equivalents were the 1,000-lb (454 kg) AZON (AZimuth ONly), used in both Europe and the CBI Theater, and the US Navy's Bat, primarily used in the Pacific Theater of World War II which used autonomous, on-board radar guidance. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Pigeon
During World War II, Project Pigeon (later Project Orcon, for "organic control") was American behaviorist B. F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb. Overview The testbed was the same National Bureau of Standards-developed, unpowered airframe that was later used for the US Navy's radar-guided "Bat" glide bomb, which was basically a small glider, with wings and tail surfaces, an explosive warhead section in the center, and a "guidance section" in the nose cone. The intent was to train pigeons to act as "pilots" for the device, using their cognitive abilities to recognize the target. The guidance system consisted of three lenses mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which projected an image of the target on a screen mounted in a small compartment inside the nose cone. This screen was mounted on pivots and fitted with sensors that measured any angular movement. One to three pigeons, trained by operant conditioning to recognize the target, were statione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikitin PSN-1
The Nikitin PSN-1 was a piloted glider anti-shipping missile produced in the USSR from 1937. Development From 1933 a series of special projects was initiated under the PSN banner (''Planer Spetsial'nogo Naznachenaya'' - Glider for Special Purposes). A proposal was made by S.F. Valk for a glider anti-shipping bomb with Infra-Red guidance, which was expanded to include DPT (long-range glider torpedo), LTDD (Long-range flying torpedo) and BMP (towed mine glider). To evaluate the ''Kvant'' Infra-Red guidance a piloted version was produced as the Nikitin PSN-1. Nikitin and Mikhelson designed a small single-seat monoplane flying boat glider with floats at approx 1/2 span, carrying a torpedo underneath. The PSN-1 was carried aloft by either Tupolev TB-3 The Tupolev TB-3, OKB designation ANT-6, was a monoplane heavy bomber deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and used during the early years of World War II. It was one of the world's first cantilever wing four-engine heavy b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawasaki Ki-148
The Kawasaki I-Gо̄ Model 1 Otsu (No.1 Model 1B), otherwise known as Ki-148 was a World War II Japanese guided air-to-surface missile designed in 1944. Developed alongside its sister project the Mitsubishi I-Gо̄ Model 1 Kо̄ and the later Tokyo Imperial University designed I-Gо̄ Model 1 Hei, the Ki-148 was a simple radio-controlled guided missile propelled by a liquid rocket engine generating of thrust for up to 80 seconds. Compared to the Ki-147, the Ki-148 was physically smaller and carried a 300 kg warhead versus the 800 kg warhead of the Ki-147. Toshihiko Ogawa, "Phantom New Machine," Kojinsha NF Bunko, 2003. ISBN 4-7698-2142-5 Test trials were carried out in late 1944 and the weapon was quickly ordered by the war ministry. Launched during tests from a modified Kawasaki Ki-48 light bomber, its standard mother aircraft was to be the modern Kawasaki Ki-102 attack aircraft. Although approximately 180 missiles were built, none saw service before the end of World War II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawasaki Ki-147 I-Go Type1 – Ko
The Mitsubishi I-Gо̄ Model 1 Kо̄ (No.1 Model 1A), otherwise known as Ki-147 was a radio-guided air to surface missile developed by Japan in World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army's main envisioned role for the platform was for strikes against U.S. and allied ships. The Ki-147 was planned to be installed on Ki-67 heavy bombers which would act as the control platform. The Ki-147 was developed during 1944-1945 along with its sister project of the smaller Kawasaki I-Gо̄ Model 1 Otsu (Ki-148) radio-guided air-to-surface missile and the later Tokyo Imperial University designed I-Gо̄ Model 1 Hei. The first prototype of the Ki-147 was completed in October 1944, and 10 missiles were completed in November. Drop tests were later conducted, but due to malfunction of the gyro stabilizer and difficulties in adjusting the radio equipment for operation, it was not put into practical use.Toshihiko Ogawa, "Phantom New Machine," Kojinsha NF Bunko, 2003. ISBN 4-7698-2142-5 Specificatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kramer X4
The Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 or Ruhrstahl-Kramer RK 344 was a Wire-guided missile, wire-guided air-to-air missile designed by Germany during World War II. The X-4 did not see operational service and thus was not proven in combat but inspired considerable post-war work around the world, and was the basis for the development of several ground-launched anti-tank missiles. History During 1943, the Royal Air Force, RAF's RAF Bomber Command, Bomber Command and the US Air Force mounted a series of heavy raids against Germany. Despite heavy bomber losses, these prompted ''Luftwaffe'' research into considerably more powerful anti-bomber weaponry in order to reduce the cost in lost fighter aircraft and aircrew. A massive development effort resulted in a number of heavy-calibre autocannon designs, air-to-air rockets, Surface-to-air missile, SAMs, and the X-4. Work on the X-4 began in June 1943, by Dr Max Kramer at . The idea was to build a missile with enough range to allow it to be fired f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Guided Missiles Of Germany
During World War II, Nazi Germany developed many missiles and precision-guided munition systems. These included the first cruise missile, the first short-range ballistic missile, the first guided surface-to-air missiles, and the first anti-ship missiles. Organizations * Peenemünde rocket test site People involved * Wernher von Braun * Walter Dornberger * Walter Thiel * Max Kramer * Herbert A. Wagner Models Surface-to-surface missiles The V1, which may be seen as the first cruise missile, was used operationally against London and Antwerp. The V-2 ballistic missile was used operationally against London, Antwerp, and other targets. The Rheinbote was fired against Antwerp. * V-1 flying bomb * V-2 rocket * Rheinbote * A4b Surface-to-air missiles Germany developed a number of surface-to-air missile systems, none of which was used operationally: * Enzian (Gentian) * Rheintochter (Rhine Daughter) - (an air-to-air variant was also planned) * Henschel Hs 117 ''Schmetterling' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Anti-ship Missiles
This is a list of anti-ship missiles. World War II * BHT-38 – France *Fritz X, Ruhrstahl/Kramer SD 1400 X (Fritz X) — Nazi Germany * Henschel Hs 293 — Nazi Germany * Henschel Hs 294 — Nazi Germany * Blohm & Voss BV 143 — Nazi Germany (prototype) * Blohm & Voss BV 246, Blohm + Voss BV 246 (''Hagelkorn'') — Nazi Germany (prototype) * Igo (missile), Igo – Empire of Japan * Ohka piloted suicide missile – Empire of Japan * Bat (guided bomb), Bat – United States Used in combat only once. Asia India *BrahMos – Supersonic cruise missile (range of 800+ km) jointly developed by India and Russia. (Operational) *Nirbhay – Anti-ship cruise missile with the range of 1,000 km to 1,500 km at the speed of 0.7 to 0.9 mach.(Operational) *BrahMos, BrahMos-NG – Miniaturized version of the Brahmos. (Under development) *BrahMos-II - Mach 7 Hypersonic cruise missile (range of 1000&th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCLOS
Manual command to line of sight (MCLOS or MACLOS) is a method for guiding guided missiles. With an MCLOS missile, the operator must track the missile and the target simultaneously and guide the missile to the target. Typically the missile is steered with a joystick, and its path is observed through a periscope-type telescopic sight. The missiles are usually equipped with a magnesium flare in the base that automatically ignites on launch and allows the gunner to visually track the fast-moving missile in a manner similar in concept to tracer ammunition. MCLOS requires considerable training and practice to master, since even a minor disruption in the gunner's concentration would likely cause a miss. These guidance systems have marginal accuracy on tank-sized targets, even with perfect line-of-sight by the gunner, due to erratic flight paths requiring timely manual corrections. As demonstrated by the Israeli Army under fire from Soviet-armed Arab states, responding to the distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
