Flying bombs

FZG. Same as German "Flying Bomb V—1 (VergeItungswaffe Eins) — "Revenge Weapon One , which is described in PATR 2510 (1958), p Ger 213 L and illustrated on p 214... 

Bombs, Buzz". Brit colloquial term for the Ger WWII flying bomb V l(Vergeltungswaffe Eins) (Revenge Weapon 1) so named for the buzz-like noise of its pulse-jet engine(Ref 1). Officially the bomb was known in Germany as FZG-76 and in the US it was designated as JB-2 Bomb. For its description see Refs 2 3 Refs 1)F.Bellinger et al.IEC 38,161-9(1946)... 

Bombs, Robot Missiles carrying warheads, such as the Ger V-l(see PATR 2510,p Ger 213) or a flying bomb, launched from the surface and directed in flight towards its target by an automatic pilot or other automatic devices Ref Glossary of Ord(1959),44... 

The MK80 GBP series is the abbreviation for a series of flying bombs whose effect is based on pressure and splitter effect. All variations of this series show an optimized aerodynamic shape so that they can be used in quick-flying fighter planes. The MK80 series consists of bombs which are predominantly composed of the explosive... 

This detonator should be inserted in a metal tube and is used in manually detonated mines. If you reverse the match position and lengthen the sticks, it can be used to explode flying bombs. ... 

Cutaway view of friction detonator (used to detonate flying bombs)... 

Minister was haunted not only by his fear of what the Nazi rocket offensive might mean for London, but also by his recurrent nightmare that the Allied invasion of France might end in trench warfare and slaughter on the scale of 1916. On 6 July 1944 Churchill told the Commons that the flying bomb was a weapon literally and essentially indiscriminate in its nature, purpose and effect. The introduction by the Germans of such a weapon obviously raises some grave questions upon which I do not propose to trench today. 54... 

The 4-lb bombs were loaded, 106 at a time, into 500-lb aircraft cluster bombs. Twenty cluster bombs were regarded as enough to knock out a flying bomb site, 1,000 would contaminate a small island , z,ooo a large town of twenty-five square miles. Both the British and the German civilian populations were defenceless against anthrax to which there was no known prophylactic measure . 

GyrostabUizer (Elmer Ambrose Sperry) Sperry develops the gyrostabilizer, a device to control the roU, pitch, and yaw of a moving ship. He will go on to invent the flying bomb, which is guided by a gyrostabilizer and by radio control. 

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