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Old July 20th 03, 02:56 AM
Gordon
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Setting the gyros would be the difficult part. The V-1 took quite a while to
set and ship's movement would cause a real problem.

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Old July 20th 03, 05:19 AM
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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| Setting the gyros would be the difficult part. The V-1 took quite a while
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| set and ship's movement would cause a real problem.
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| v/r
| Gordon
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This is the 'wooden hammer' concerto ?


Always amused me, beating a flying bomb with sticks, has a certain
'duck & rabbit season' feel to it.




Cheers

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Old July 20th 03, 10:30 AM
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Glen Edwards was involved in a test at Wendover in the summer of 1945,
in which two V-1s were fired from underwing mounts on a B-17. This was
part of the run-up to the invasion of Japan, like the preparations for
the Twin Mustang (with which he was also involved).

So it would seem that stand-off missiles a heavy bomber was the
direction in which the USAAF was looking.

(Northrop was at that time building its own version of the V-1.)

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Old July 20th 03, 12:15 PM
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Ignoring the political, economic, and strategic issues around the matter,
what would have been the technical problems involved in launching V-1s

from
a completed CV Graf Zeppelin?


Mostly keeping the ship afloat, the RN and RAF would make a
maximum effort against such a target.

I assume one would be limited to city-sized targets; would the sort of
catapult fitted to GZ have been capable of hefting a V-1 into the air?


It wouldnt need one, the ship was large enough to mount a
launching ramp on.

Of course it wouldnt have been able to hit anything worth a
damm unless very well stabilised.

Keith


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Old July 20th 03, 12:17 PM
Keith Willshaw
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Glen Edwards was involved in a test at Wendover in the summer of 1945,
in which two V-1s were fired from underwing mounts on a B-17. This was
part of the run-up to the invasion of Japan, like the preparations for
the Twin Mustang (with which he was also involved).

So it would seem that stand-off missiles a heavy bomber was the
direction in which the USAAF was looking.


The Luftwaffe launched V-1's from He-111's during the war
and the US was already developing stand off weapons such
as the Bat Bomb

Keith


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Old July 20th 03, 05:56 PM
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Yep, although if the UK had been removed from hostilities, it might just
about have been feasible to get a GZ into position to launch some sort of
Doolittle-type sneak raid on the USEC.


I saw a documentary that said the Germans were building a submersible
trailer for a U-boat that could launch a V-2. Plan being to tow hem across
the Atlantic and launch into the United States.

Si


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Old July 20th 03, 07:18 PM
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In the 1950s we regularly launched the Regulus missile from
aircraft carriers, cruisers or submarines. The Regulus had
the same turbojet engine as did the T-33 [T-2V] advanced
pilot trainer of the 1950s and carried a nuclear warhead. It
was command controlled from either the launching ship or
from our FJ-3D carrier based fighter planes.

WDA

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"The Blue Max" wrote in message
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Ignoring the political, economic, and strategic issues

around the matter,
what would have been the technical problems involved in

launching V-1s from
a completed CV Graf Zeppelin?

I assume one would be limited to city-sized targets; would

the sort of
catapult fitted to GZ have been capable of hefting a V-1

into the air?

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De Meuse raines, houp! de cloques.
De quelles loques ce turqe coin.
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Old July 20th 03, 11:58 PM
Keith Willshaw
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"Simon Robbins" wrote in message
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"The Blue Max" wrote in message
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Yep, although if the UK had been removed from hostilities, it might just
about have been feasible to get a GZ into position to launch some sort

of
Doolittle-type sneak raid on the USEC.


I saw a documentary that said the Germans were building a submersible
trailer for a U-boat that could launch a V-2. Plan being to tow hem across
the Atlantic and launch into the United States.

Si


Yeah I've seen the reports too, the Nazis were full of great ideas to waste
invaluable resources and u-boats, I suppose we should be thankful
they didnt get round to sensible projects like actually training enough
pilots
for all the planes they built.

Keith


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Old July 21st 03, 05:51 AM
vicky89
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"Simon Robbins" wrote in message ...
"The Blue Max" wrote in message
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Yep, although if the UK had been removed from hostilities, it might just
about have been feasible to get a GZ into position to launch some sort of
Doolittle-type sneak raid on the USEC.


I saw a documentary that said the Germans were building a submersible
trailer for a U-boat that could launch a V-2.


They quite possibly did. According to reports in 1944, three U-boats
U-24, U-9 and U-19 equipped with rocket launchers were allegedly
deployed against Soviet harbor facilities and moored ships during the
German retreat. If this is true it was the first combat use of a
submarine-launched missile.
 




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