1944 Hitler's Secret Weapon

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1944 Hitler's Secret Weapon

1944 Hitler's Secret Weapon

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Design A150-class battleship (also known as the “Super Yamato-class battleship”) – a successor to the Yamato with added features.

Fritz X – an unpowered air-launched, MCLOS-guided anti-ship missile using the FuG 203/230 Kehl-Straßurg control system, the pioneering wartime example of a gravity-type PGM, used from September 1943 through 1944. A rear view of a Horton Ho 229 prototype at the Smithsonian Institute’s Garber Restoration Facility. Credit: Michael.katzmann at English Wikipedia This guided anti-ship glide munition (see main image at the top) was one of Hitler’s most secret bombs. And it’s not hard to see why. Not only was it the first precision-guided bomb to ever be deployed in combat, but on 9 September 1943 it also became the first such bomb to sink a ship in combat – the Italian battleship Roma. Neufeld, Michael (13 April 2020). "The Myth of the German "Wonder-Weapons" ". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum . Retrieved 19 April 2020.As the war situation worsened for Germany from 1942, claims about the development of revolutionary new weapons which could turn the tide became an increasingly prominent part of the propaganda directed at Germans by their government. [2] In reality, the advanced weapons under development generally required lengthy periods of design work and testing, and there was no realistic prospect of the German military being able to field them before the end of the war. When some advanced designs, such as the Panther tank and Type XXI submarine, were rushed into production, their performance proved disappointing to the German military and leadership due to inadequate pre-production testing or poorly planned construction processes. [3] Historian Michael J. Neufeld has noted that "the net result of all these weapons, deployed or otherwise, was that the Reich wasted a lot of money and technical expertise (and killed a lot of forced and slave laborers) in developing and producing exotic devices that yielded little or no tactical and strategic advantage". [4] However, a few weapons proved to be successful and have had a large influence in post-war designs.

Landkreuzer P. 1500 " Monster" – a proposed super-heavy self-propelled gun, weighing 1500 metric tons and armed with the 800mm Schwerer Gustav/Dora gun. Panzerkampfwagen E-100 –A planned super-heavy tank (the heaviest of a series of "E-tanks") weighing 140 tonnes and armed with either 128 or 150mm cannon, one prototype hull nearly completed, the hull was later captured and evaluated by the British before being scrapped in the 1950s. Fritz X, a guided anti-ship glide bomb, the world's first precision guided weapon ever deployed in combat. Henschel Hs 293 – a pioneering MCLOS-guided, launch-boosted air-to-ship missile using the Kehl-Straßurg radio link as with the Fritz X, used in combat from 1943 to 1944.

4. Horten Ho 229

Power, Ed (July 18, 2019). "Why are we still obsessed with the idea of Nazis on the Moon?". Daily Telegraph. London. Ruhrstahl X-4 – a wire-guided liquid-fueled air-to-air missile intended to be usable with the Ta 183.

Witkowski postulated Xerum 525 was likely an irradiated form of mercury used in the creation of a form of plasma that was intended as a weapon and/or propulsion system, and which may have been capable of distorting spacetime. Heinkel He 274 – a high altitude heavy bomber with four in-line engines with a range of 3,440km, two completed by France after the war. a b Colavito, Jason. "Review of In Search of Aliens S01E02 "Nazi Time Travelers" ". JasonColavito.com. Jason Colavito . Retrieved 1 December 2016. Heinkel He 111Z – a five engined Zwilling (twin)-fuselage aircraft created by combining two He 111s and designed to tow large gliders.Messerschmitt Me 264 – an Amerikabomber candidate with four inline or radial engines and a range of 15,000km, three airworthy prototypes built and flown. Karl-Gerät, the largest calibre (up to 60cm), self-propelled mortar ever deployed – seven examples built, six seeing combat 1941–45. mm Reșița Model 1943 – an anti-tank gun with a muzzle velocity of over 1km/second which could also elevate enough to double as a field gun, reported to have outperformed its Western, German and Soviet counterparts to become arguably the most versatile gun in its class during World War II (at least 375 produced). [5] Type XXVI U-boat – a U-boat designed to use air-independent propulsion; several were under construction when the war ended. German soldiers operate a Goliath mine with a remote control in Russia in April 1944. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101III-AhrensA-026-12 / August Ahrens / CC-BY-SA 3.0



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