https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SGlWH_wETY9Coc5Wv5ItmbFEgLeLEirX/view?pli=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ke-GoThis was a guided glide bomb (like the Fritz X) designed for anti-shipping operations, unlike the Fritz X though, it was fully autonomous and incapable of being radio jammed. It has 4 stabilizing fins, 4 control fins, and the explosive sits behind the infrared sensing head.Tests on a 10x30 meter raft with a fire burning on it revealed that the infrared sensing heads worked very well, but the guidance flaps did not, which resulted in a total of ~5-6 bombs out of 50 hitting the target.By the time guidance was improved upon further, the war was already over and further testing was halted.I’d believe this is the only WWII era heat seeking “precision munition” that was being tested, I find it interesting how little this is documented, probably coinciding with Japan destroying most of their records just before surrendering to save face. (Japan had a sizeable turbojet RnD program too with their own domestic designs, which I might post about later in this thread) Do ((you)) have any thoughts on this? Usually WWII technology threads end up being kino.
>page threealright I give up, this board doesn’t care about weaponry, only borderline /pol/ shit.
>>64465297We don’t care about that shit, those nigs just constantly spam it and bump the threads to make it seem that way.
>>64465297>page threeOh my god it's the end of the world!!
>>64465297It's a shame. Anyway, the R4M Orkan is my favorite WW2 wunderwaffen which was actually wondrous. If deployed earlier it would have made 4-engine bombers obsolete and it was cheap/simple enough to reverse the Allied logistical advantage in the air war.
"BOO niBBa" said the Bat with the Gat"Abandon yo ship, or you all getting clapped"
>>64465297There're only a few anons that actually care about the mil tech autism, in particular of WWI and WWII. They might appear or not...>Me? I kinda got tired and stopped posted because the culture here is using fudlore (that can't be questioned)/twitter/slopGPT/fallacies as an "argument" >then when I post an AGARD pdf related to the story of German tech of WWII (like IR homing) the rest goes AWOL, I guess the NSA executed him (see https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/62009606/#q62009799)Thanks for coming to my TED talkPS: I think miltech/osint would benefit from a new board specific to that, that would allow better filtering of pol bullshit and "post gun" as discussion trasher.
>>64465333stopped posting* F
>>64465314That’d be the unguided air-air rockets right? There would’ve been a wire guided missile too for bomber attack roles but piloting a plane and guiding the missile at the same time was found to be too tricky (Ruhrstal X-4)Anyway, I find it funny how NONE of the axis nations decided to congregate all their technological research early on in the alliance, we could’ve easily seen something more robust, like let’s say infrared guided air-ground anti shipping missiles, etc. Even more ridiculous is Japan having very good magnetron technology around the outbreak of WWII, but instead of using this for advanced radar, they instead tried to microwave things from a distance to kill them (I think the “most successful” they got was taking ten minutes to cook a rabbit from the inside out at 30m away with one high power microwave generator) They would’ve planned to bundle 4 magnetrons and a larger reflector for even more power and distance, but ultimately shifted to different priorities, and then used magnetrons mainly for radar by around ~1941-1945 based on captured equipment and examples from Germany which gave them limited capabilities.
>>64465174It looks like that russian drone thing
>>64465333>because the culture here is using fudlore (that can't be questioned)/twitter/slopGPT/fallacies as an "argument"Sounds like the nu-/k/ I know. Which is grim, sometimes I forget how shit the rest of the site is, and wonder why oldfags still find things like the 4cc relevant as “site culture” when it’s /a/ dominated now (and always has been historically)
>>64465174Thanks for posting this. I'd never heard of the Ho-301 cannon's projectile! It reminds me of the Russian caseless-grenade ammunition.
>>64465351>That’d be the unguided air-air rockets right? Yes, it's a 55mm rocket with about 1 pound HE warhead. Very cheap and very simple to make with no real industrial base required. It's like something Hamas would make in their basement. The results might not be intuitively obvious until you examine the implications of its performance characteristics. Any fighter can use them. A volley of R4Ms can be fired from outside the effective range of a B17 or B29's guns, and at that range a standard salvo is basically guaranteed a hit on the bomber, and in turn the warhead basically guarantees a catastrophic kill.
The Axis powers also had microwave magnetrons, but a breakthrough in power output was needed to make them practical as radars. Japan's Type 22 radar and the US SG radar had a 25-fold difference in power output.
>>64465358because it's the last thing we have
>>64465322Autonomous radar-guided anti-ship munitions in WW2. And they actually USED that shit in numbers.
>>64465174infrared sensors of the 40s were too shit to allow this in practice, PbS detectors could reliably detect only very hot objects and image scanning wasn't developed until mid 1950s and fielded in 1960sit would be a trivially defeated weapon
If the BAT had also been designed as a vertical dive type, wouldn't it have been more practical, as radar would not have been confused by ground clutter?
>>64465174Gaijin when?
Type 3 No. 25 Mk 31 Bomb Model 1Japanese air burst bomb which relied on a rapidly pulsing beam of light and a photoelectric cell. Light would reflect off the ground and once it reached a high enough intensity at the cell, it would set off the bomb. It had a successful activation rate of 90% during day and night but could prematurely detonate if exposed to a searchlight and in one instance, a cloud.https://x.com/kogasyuto/status/1123206980221280256http://michaelhiske.de/Allierte/USA/TManual/9_1985_4/Chap01/Section02/FIG_068.HTMhttp://michaelhiske.de/Allierte/USA/TManual/9_1985_4/Chap02/Section02/FIG_137.HTMhttps://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%A4%A7%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E5%B8%9D%E5%9B%BD%E6%B5%B7%E8%BB%8D%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E7%88%86%E5%BC%BE%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7
>>64465322>>64466846>A total of approximately 2,600 Bat missiles were deployed>only accomplishment was damaging one (1) japanese escort vesselswhat was the point?Japanese AA was weak as fuck, should just have used MCLOS instead
>>64465174Neat. I had no idea there were infrared seeking munitions that early
