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Flying bombs

We previously mentioned that the Americans and Russians both inherited from the Germans two missiles for attacking and killing enemies. One of them was known by the letter V1, which is an abbreviation of the German word Vergeltungswaffe, meaning the weapon of revenge, and the second was known by the letter V2 and came after the first in terms of time. We will add here and say that the Americans and Russians both focused on them, in their first era with modern missiles, researching them, imitating them, and modifying them with the help of German scientists. Who had the credit for designing it after the end of World War II.

As for the first missile, V1, it was known as the flying bomb. It was actually a jet plane, with no bird in it. It carried 2,000 pounds of explosives in its nose, i.e. in its front, and its speed was 400 miles per hour. The Germans sent about 8,000 shells from the coast of France, most of which targeted London. The Germans did not finish this shell until they started with the V2 missile, from which they sent about 1,100 shells to London. This was a truly rocket-propelled grenade, fueled by alcohol and oxygen as an oxidizer. It has a pump that pumps the fuel. It also had a kind of guidance, even if it was unsuccessful. The shell rarely fell less than 3 or 5 miles from its target. It is known that this shell carried a ton of explosives at its head. Its speed was 3,000 miles per hour, but its range was only 200 miles.

The Russians and Germans derived all their missiles from the V2 missile, including some that were lifted by artificial satellites and orbited around the Earth, as the Russians did for the first time.

But they also derived from VI the projectile which they called a flying bomb.

One of the latest flying bombs manufactured by the Americans is the flying bomb called the Mace-A. This missile has a complete guidance device that includes the part that senses the missile deviating from its path, even by a small amount. The device includes a rotating ring with a fixed direction called a gyroscope, and it includes devices for measuring the acceleration (accelometer). Computers, which also include engines that receive the commands resulting from these previous sensations, and they immediately implement them, placing the projectile back in the
The desired correct path.

As for the Americans, so for the Russians. Among the Russian bombs was the flying bomb that the Egyptian Navy dropped on the Israeli destroyer Eilat, while it was in the Mediterranean Sea, sinking it. This is her talk

- Sinking the Israeli destroyer Eilat:

On October 21, 1967, the Egyptians sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat, 12 miles in the Mediterranean Sea from Port Said. They fired missiles at it directly, sinking it within minutes.
As for the ship that the Egyptians used, it was a fast guard boat, built by the Russians.

As for the missile, it is a small plane, without a pilot, which Western men call 20 Styx to distinguish it. It has a wingspan of twenty feet. It carries explosives that explode when the target is hit.

What carried this plane to its target was a missile, which was placed at the bottom of it, attached to its bottom, and launched, so this flying missile made its way to the destroyer.
Some believe, due to this successful hit, 12 miles away, that this missile carried a guidance device, of some kind.

The Russians have missiles larger than these, more modern, and more capable of sinking.

(A picture of the boat and the missile with which the Egyptians sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in 1967)

(Russian anti-tank missiles, of the latest model, four, mounted on a vehicle transported with infantry soldiers to protect them from enemy tanks. This missile is known as the Sagger)