IS there a MODed SUB with cruise missile?

Paul Riley · 03-26-10, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by KL-alfman

maillemaker · 03-26-10, 10:25 AM

I thought I remembered reading about plans or tests for carrying a V2 in a towable, submersible launch platform?

Anyway I don't know that the strategic value would have been that great, other than providing increased range, which would have been fantastic, of course.

Once launched, there was no technology that could intercept or shoot down a V2 that I know of.

Steve

Paul Riley · 03-26-10, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by maillemaker

Once launched, there was no technology that could intercept or shoot down a V2 that I know of.

Steve

Certainly not at close range thats for sure.The only way Britain ever dealt with them was with Spitfires (if they got scrambled in time that is),where they would fly and maintain course and speed with the V2,then fly so that their wing was directly under the wing of the V2,then roll over flipping it in the process,which would knock it off course,then hopefully it would land in a field somewhere

maillemaker · 03-26-10, 10:43 AM

Paul, I think you are talking about the V1 buzz bombs? They could be shot down.

V2 rockets were supersonic traveling on ballistic trajectories. There was nothing that could take them down. Hell there is hardly anything today that can take them down.

Steve

Paul Riley · 03-26-10, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by maillemaker

Paul, I think you are talking about the V1 buzz bombs? They could be shot down.

V2 rockets were supersonic traveling on ballistic trajectories. There was nothing that could take them down. Hell there is hardly anything today that can take them down.

Steve

Could have been the V1s,as they made a distinctive 'buzzing' sound just before they would cut out then...well,you know the rest

Jimbuna · 03-26-10, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Riley

Certainly not at close range thats for sure.The only way Britain ever dealt with them was with Spitfires (if they got scrambled in time that is),where they would fly and maintain course and speed with the V2,then fly so that their wing was directly under the wing of the V2,then roll over flipping it in the process,which would knock it off course,then hopefully it would land in a field somewhere

A rare photo of such an event:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp...lying_Bomb.jpg

KL-alfman · 03-26-10, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

A rare photo of such an event:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp...lying_Bomb.jpg

this definitely is a V1

edit: the pilot must've been very gifted and brave to do such deed

frau kaleun · 03-26-10, 01:09 PM

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Certainly not at close range thats for sure.The only way Britain ever dealt with them was with Spitfires (if they got scrambled in time that is),where they would fly and maintain course and speed with the V2,then fly so that their wing was directly under the wing of the V2,then roll over flipping it in the process,which would knock it off course,then hopefully it would land in a field somewhere

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A rare photo of such an event:

Makes me wonder how the RAF could even get airborne, with balls that big.

Paul Riley · 03-26-10, 01:18 PM

Good ol' British balls of steel! we were born to fight

maillemaker · 03-26-10, 01:45 PM

Definitely a V1.

I don't understand why if they were able to get that close that they did not just shoot it down? I know many were shot down, also by anti-aircraft batteries.

maillemaker · 03-26-10, 02:01 PM

According to wikipedia, they were hard to shoot down, because they were relatively tough.

Steve

flag4 · 03-27-10, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

A rare photo of such an event:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp...lying_Bomb.jpg

ahh, its soo sweet - they look like they're holding hands...

U-48Kriegsmarine · 03-27-10, 04:03 PM

Thats a V1 in the picture, the V2 didn't have wings.

But still... WOW!!!

KL-alfman · 03-27-10, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by flag4

ahh, its soo sweet - they look like they're holding hands...

funny point of view!

timmy41 · 03-27-10, 08:29 PM

I watched a video about the womens defense auxiliary that manned (or womanned?) the coastal defense 12.8cm guns. There was a lot of footage in it of them shooting down the v1s, often if they werent destroyed in mid air, they would be destabilized and crash, hopefully landing in the cleared areas but sometimes on the gun positions themselves.
ill try to find it.

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03-26-10, 10:25 AM	#2
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	I thought I remembered reading about plans or tests for carrying a V2 in a towable, submersible launch platform? Anyway I don't know that the strategic value would have been that great, other than providing increased range, which would have been fantastic, of course. Once launched, there was no technology that could intercept or shoot down a V2 that I know of. Steve

03-26-10, 10:43 AM	#4
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Paul, I think you are talking about the V1 buzz bombs? They could be shot down. V2 rockets were supersonic traveling on ballistic trajectories. There was nothing that could take them down. Hell there is hardly anything today that can take them down. Steve

03-26-10, 01:45 PM	#10
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Definitely a V1. I don't understand why if they were able to get that close that they did not just shoot it down? I know many were shot down, also by anti-aircraft batteries.

03-26-10, 02:01 PM	#11
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	According to wikipedia, they were hard to shoot down, because they were relatively tough. Steve

03-27-10, 08:29 PM	#15
timmy41 Weps Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 367 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	I watched a video about the womens defense auxiliary that manned (or womanned?) the coastal defense 12.8cm guns. There was a lot of footage in it of them shooting down the v1s, often if they werent destroyed in mid air, they would be destabilized and crash, hopefully landing in the cleared areas but sometimes on the gun positions themselves. ill try to find it.