NEW GLIDER BOMB
GERMAN INVENTION FLIGHT CONTROLLED BY RADIO LONDON, Feb. 9. Further details have now been published of the new German rocket-pro-pelled glider bomb. It is believed to be about 20ft to 30ft long, with tail/fins which act as a rudder and stabiliser. It has a wingspread of about 15ft. It is apparently armour-piercing, since one penetrated the thick deckplates of a ship at Salerno. The bomb is released from the belly of the twin-engined Heinkel, which drops its flaps and slows down, while the rocket shoots ahead into the pilot’s vision under radio control from the Heinkel, The pilot exercises control of the bomb apparently according to what he can see of its The bomb can make a sharp turn against the target from the side. It is apparently under good control, except when the control plane is interfered with. Whether the Germans can muster a large fleet of such bomb-carrying planes for use against invasion is unknown, but it must be assumed that they can.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25457, 11 February 1944, Page 3
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