GLIDER BOMB DETAILS
(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.)
LONDON, February 9. Further details ate now published of the new German rocket-propelled glider bomb. It is believed to be about 20 to 30 feet long, with tail fins acting as a rudder and stabilizer. It has a wing spread of about 15 feet, and is apparently armour-piercing, since one penetrated the thick deck-plates of a ship at Salerno, The bomb is released from the belly of a twin-engined Heinkel which drops its flaps and slows down while the rocket shoots ahead into the pilot’s vision. The pilot exercises radio control of the bomb, apparently according to wh.qi he can see of its flight. The bomb can make a sharp turn against a target and is apparently tinder good control except when the control plane is interfered with. Whether the Germans can muster a large fleet of these planes for use against invasion is unknown, but it must be assumed that they can.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 116, 11 February 1944, Page 5
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