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Hey Paul, love your content! I was hopeful that you’d be willing to make a video about the B-2 Bomber. You have mentioned it in several videos which is good, but an in depth look into it would be awesome! Regardless, keep up the great work!
@@Icridium"Today, we’re diving into one of the most fascinating and, frankly, awe-inspiring aircraft ever created-the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. It’s the flying wing that looks like it’s flown straight out of a sci-fi movie. But the real story behind the B-2 is even more incredible than its appearance. This aircraft isn’t just a marvel of engineering; it’s a product of secrecy, ambition, and Cold War paranoia. So, how did we go from conventional bombers to this radar-evading masterpiece? Let’s find out. The B-2 Spirit was designed with one thing in mind-stealth. Its flying wing design, which eliminates the traditional fuselage and tail, isn’t just for show. It’s about minimizing its radar cross-section, making it almost invisible to radar systems. This isn’t a new concept, by the way. The roots of this design can be traced back to experimental aircraft from the 1930s and 40s, like the Horten brothers’ flying wing in Nazi Germany. But where those were prototypes, the B-2 took this concept into the 21st century, pairing it with materials and electronics that were science fiction at the time. Now, the development of the B-2 is a story in itself. This was a Cold War-era project, and like so many things from that time, it came with an eye-watering price tag. At nearly $2 billion per aircraft, the B-2 is one of the most expensive military projects ever undertaken. But for that cost, you get an aircraft that can fly over 6,000 nautical miles without refueling and carry a devastating payload of both conventional and nuclear weapons. It’s a true force multiplier-able to project power anywhere on the globe, often without being detected until it’s far too late. But, as impressive as it is, the B-2 hasn’t been without its critics. Some have questioned whether such an expensive and maintenance-heavy aircraft is viable in the long term. Each B-2 requires constant care to maintain its stealth coating, and adversaries are constantly developing new radar technologies to detect stealth aircraft. It raises an important question-are systems like the B-2 relics of Cold War thinking, or do they still have a role in modern warfare as drones and hypersonic weapons take center stage? And finally, we have to think about what the B-2 represents. It’s not just an aircraft; it’s a symbol of the lengths humans will go to in the pursuit of technological superiority, especially during times of geopolitical tension. As we look to the future with projects like the B-21 Raider on the horizon, one has to wonder-are we entering a new era of stealth technology, or is the era of the manned stealth bomber coming to an end? Let me know what you think in the comments below. Until next time, thanks for watching Curious Droid!"
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"Nein! Nein! I haff no idea who zis 'Werner Von Braun' ist! Mein name is Billy-Bob Schmi- er, Smith! I come from Pine Bluff, Arkansas! Mein mutter und vater were Earl and Lurlene Smith! I love zee baseball and pie of apples! Her iz mein Social Security number, mein Yankee passport, and mein high school diploma from All-American Yankee Doodle High School! In pristine condition!"
In actuality, there were dozens of guided missile projects before the JB-1 Loon. Some entering operational service but most just being prototypes and a large assortment of Cancelled and abandoned projects, most ended due to WWII ending in and funding drying up/no longer needed. The book “Off-Target: Americas guided bombs, missiles and drones 1917-1950” by William wolf is chock full of these programs.
Actually, there were at least two prior attempts, though today we'd probably classify them as drones. The first was between WWI and WWII, using remote controlled obsolete biplanes loaded with explosives. The other was during WWII, where worn out B-17 were going to be filled with explosives, flown part of the way manually, then the rest of the way by remote using primitive TV cameras, with the flight crew jumping out before the turnover. This was cancelled after a mishap where the plane detonated killing the crew led by JFK's older brother Joe Jr..
To also add on, we did develop AShM and some SAM in WWII However the AShM beung the ASM-N-2 Bat was used compared to the Gorgon which never saw anything beyond testing.
Go back farther, to 1917 and you'll find the Kettering Aerial Torpedo, aka “Bug”. This was an unmanned biplane bomb with a 180lb warhead and a small prop engine. It was designed to break free from its wings after a predetermined time, causing the bomb to drop. There's a replica of one at the USAF Museum in Dayton.
@@NKY151no, Fritz X was radio guided bomb with stubby wings to somewhat extend it's range (1000 kilogram armour piercing bomb, iirc, it was basically precision guidance kit similar to those used now). Hs 293 was radio guided glider bomb with rocket engine, effectively first anti-ship missile. Both of them were relatively common and integrated on bunch of bombers and naval recon planes, seeing some combat success
There was a Northrop JB-1 located at Northrop Institute of Technology (NIT) an aviation school for A&P mechanics, located near Los Angeles International Airport in the 1960's. I was there from 1965 through 1966 and saw it there many times. I have no idea where it is now.
In the 1950s I had a Revell kit of the USS Nautilus which included a Regulus 1 missile to mount on the deck. The Nautilus never carried such a missile, though.
Point Mugu Missile Park, located in Ventura county, California has the US copy of the V-1, the Loon, displayed at the park along with over a dozen other missiles and several fighter aircraft. Just off of Pacific Coast Highway. Definitely worth a stop to see Loon, Regulas, Polaris and other missiles / drones developed and tested at Pt. Mugu.
'Well your Majesty, it's not efficient, nor accurate, & only carries a small payload - but it is very, very loud.' 'Better give it the Americans then, sounds right up their street!' (Grams: Loud cheering at The Palace : )
@kenheise162 The idea of an "aerial torpedo" was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer in which flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London. In 1916, the American aviator Lawrence Sperry built and patented an "aerial torpedo", the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, a small biplane carrying a TNT charge, a Sperry autopilot and barometric altitude control. Inspired by the experiments, the United States Army developed a similar flying bomb called the Kettering Bug. Germany had also flown trials with remote-controlled aerial gliders (Torpedogleiter) built by Siemens-Schuckert beginning in 1916.
@@S1nwar A common theme, that's why construction projects in Germany still find US-made WW2 bombs that failed to do their job for over 70 years straight.
@@1dK628 i read somewhere that he had tears in his eyes and said “ I knew it would fly “ they opened a curtain in a inside hangar window viewing area and let him see it on the hangar floor.
Hmmm, piloting remotely by tv, radar guided... If I remember correctly, the V-1 just had gyroscopes to keep it's orientation and a prop and rotation counter to determine when to cut the fuel as it should be at it's targeted range. The guidance was so primitive that British pilots would just tip them on the wing to throw them off course. Seems like they missed out on the original intent and that is was to be inexpensive and readily manufactured.
The American variant was designed for submarine launch and had four times the range… The Ford engine had a 90 minute design life compared to the 30 minutes of the original Argus engine…
@@allangibson8494to be fair, Germans didn't really needed more range and also had He 111 modified for aerial launches of V-1 to deal with range, flexibility and fact launchpads for V-1 where extremely easy targets (so where submarines having to first assemble it and prepare the launching rail)
@@depressedTrent Ford added rubber seals to the engine valves which greatly improve reliability. Over half of the V-1’s failed to reach England due to mechanical failure with the net result that more people died creating the V weapons than died from their use… The intent behind the Loon project was to use them for harassment raids on Japan between early November 1945 and April 1946… (assuming that having seventeen atomic bombs dropped on them didn’t persuade them to surrender (that was the Operation Downfall plan - five bombs on cities (two actually used) followed by six on Kyushu in November 1945 to clear the landing beaches, followed by another six on the Kanto plain around Tokyo in April 1946…)).
From all I have seen and read, British pilots flying Typhoons, were the only ones able to match or exceed their speed. A few pilots died when they got too close when they shot at them and caused the V-1's to explode.
@ The Gloster Meteor’s got a few as did the Griffin engined Mk14 Spitfires. The Mk 14 was about 10% faster than a V-1 running empty and the Meteor was 50% faster.
In 1984 I was 18 and bought my first pulse jet engine, which I still have; I ran it ONCE. It made a noise like a diesel truck horn and got red glowing hot in about 5 seconds- I haven't messed with that fucking thing since~
When I was stationed at Keesler AFB, MS in 1969, there was a JB-2 Loon on static display. I wonder if it is still there? However the very first attempt at what are now called cruise missiles, was ordered in 1917 by the U.S. Army's Aviation Section of the Signal Corps (the forerunner of today's U.S. Air Force). It was ordered from Charles Kettering and officially called the Kettering Aerial Torpedo but was nicknamed "Kettering Bug". World War I ended before the "Bug" had completed testing so it wasn't needed. So we've come full circle: Kettering Aerial Torpedo to the Fieseler Fi-103 (V-1) to the JB-2 Loon to the BGM-109 Tomahawk.
In 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, our new shopping mall had three bomb shelters on display in the parking lot and a Mace Missile on the back of an 18 wheeler. I believe that the Mace Missile was a descendant of the V-1 & Matador Missiles.
The first V1 did not land in London, but twenty miles to the east, south of the Thames at Swanscombe, near Dartford, in Kent. The Danish island of Bornholm is midway between Germany, Poland and Sweden.
That V-1 wreckage was exchanged for radar equipment and flown back to the UK in a Mosquito. I think the same thing happened with an experimental V-2 that was recovered by the Polish resistance,and again flown back to the UK. Pretty sure both were in the hands of the Allies before they were even first fired in anger by the Germans
The British gave the US a defective V-1. It failed to shut down the pulse jet then dive when over its target so flew on until it ran out of fuel. The V-1 glided down to do a belly landing that should've set off the war head but didn't. The German Arms Ministry was paying 13,000 RM for each V-1. The US Army found a company to make their first copies for $600 apiece.
The V-1 never used to cut the fuel to initiate the dive. It used a small explosive to push and lock the elevator in the max nose down position, the sudden dive caused sometimes an engine stall
Most of the information on development of V1 and V2 rockets was provided to the British by the Polish intelligence that operated directly in Peenemunde and was reporting regularly to Polish exile govt in London.
The JB-2 Loon wasn’t the first American guided missile. As the number indicates it wasn’t even the first jet powered one. The U.S. Navy used piston engined ship launched TV guided missiles (Interstate TDR-1 and similar Naval Aircraft Factory TDN-1) to attack Rabaul in 1944. The turbojet powered Interstate XBDR-1 was supposed to supersede the these but then a clone of the V-1 rolled into frame which also resulted in the cancellation of the turbojet Northrop JB-1 Bat…
So it wasn’t just myself that found the thumbnail photo/graphic eerily similar to something that seen flying over The English Channel in the early 1940’s in a less fetching shade of grey.
The first cruise missile was the German V-1 operationally starting in June 1944. The first ballistic missile was the German V-2 operationally starting in September 1944. The first mass-production operational jet fighter was the German Messerschmitt Me 262 which were in the European battlefields in mid 1944. All of these came too late in WWII to have any effect on the war.
The US guided missile, while a major step forward in military technology, also ushered in a new era of arms race. As other countries realized that the US could develop and use missile technology effectively, they would seek to develop similar or even surpass it. This could lead to an increase in nuclear threats, asymmetric wars, and the possibility of global war. Therefore, although this technology changes the way war is fought, it could also increase the risk of conflict and military escalation.
There are several JB2 to be seen at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in Oregon. There is also the Spruce Goose on display. And the Regulus ist to be seen together with its launch submarine, the USS Growler, beside the USS Intrepid in New York City.
Guided missiles are basically kamikaze planes without pilots. It's kind of ironic but also kind of super dark that USA wanted to use unmanned kamikaze planes to attack Japan that was using manned cruise missiles to attack USA due to lack of technology and resources. Look up Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka.
I saw a JB-2 recently at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. I suspect that it no longer was fitted with the warhead. There was an American copy of the V-2 as well.
Project Orcon.... BF Skinners experiment's in using trained pigeons as seeker heads? The US was also working on a simple "1bit" IR guidance head using conical scanning, similar to what was being used in certain tracking radars.
I'm surprised the V-1-based development carried on for so long considering the V-2 followed so quickly afterwards. Didn't the V-2 make V-1-style propulsion obsolete?
The V2 was ridiculously expensive, to the point where they probably caused Germany to lose the war noticeably sooner than if they had never been built. Even with the high failure rate and high rate of being shot down, the V1 delivered explosives to England for much cheaper than the V2 could manage.
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Can you do the story of the retro fitting of the Vulcan bombers that bombed stanly airfield, I remember a really good bbc radio 4 program about it, many years ago.
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Hey Paul, love your content! I was hopeful that you’d be willing to make a video about the B-2 Bomber. You have mentioned it in several videos which is good, but an in depth look into it would be awesome! Regardless, keep up the great work!
@@Icridium"Today, we’re diving into one of the most fascinating and, frankly, awe-inspiring aircraft ever created-the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. It’s the flying wing that looks like it’s flown straight out of a sci-fi movie. But the real story behind the B-2 is even more incredible than its appearance. This aircraft isn’t just a marvel of engineering; it’s a product of secrecy, ambition, and Cold War paranoia. So, how did we go from conventional bombers to this radar-evading masterpiece? Let’s find out.
The B-2 Spirit was designed with one thing in mind-stealth. Its flying wing design, which eliminates the traditional fuselage and tail, isn’t just for show. It’s about minimizing its radar cross-section, making it almost invisible to radar systems. This isn’t a new concept, by the way. The roots of this design can be traced back to experimental aircraft from the 1930s and 40s, like the Horten brothers’ flying wing in Nazi Germany. But where those were prototypes, the B-2 took this concept into the 21st century, pairing it with materials and electronics that were science fiction at the time.
Now, the development of the B-2 is a story in itself. This was a Cold War-era project, and like so many things from that time, it came with an eye-watering price tag. At nearly $2 billion per aircraft, the B-2 is one of the most expensive military projects ever undertaken. But for that cost, you get an aircraft that can fly over 6,000 nautical miles without refueling and carry a devastating payload of both conventional and nuclear weapons. It’s a true force multiplier-able to project power anywhere on the globe, often without being detected until it’s far too late.
But, as impressive as it is, the B-2 hasn’t been without its critics. Some have questioned whether such an expensive and maintenance-heavy aircraft is viable in the long term. Each B-2 requires constant care to maintain its stealth coating, and adversaries are constantly developing new radar technologies to detect stealth aircraft. It raises an important question-are systems like the B-2 relics of Cold War thinking, or do they still have a role in modern warfare as drones and hypersonic weapons take center stage?
And finally, we have to think about what the B-2 represents. It’s not just an aircraft; it’s a symbol of the lengths humans will go to in the pursuit of technological superiority, especially during times of geopolitical tension. As we look to the future with projects like the B-21 Raider on the horizon, one has to wonder-are we entering a new era of stealth technology, or is the era of the manned stealth bomber coming to an end? Let me know what you think in the comments below. Until next time, thanks for watching Curious Droid!"
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Me seeing the thumbnail: "hmmm, the design looks awfully similar to something the mustache man launched at London, what a coincidence" 😂
Did HE do it though...or did he just say: Ja?
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Operation Paperclip.
Brits actually invented only slavery by themselves xd
It was either USA or Soviets, thank god the soviets didn't get thier hands on the most important scientists.
I never knew we copied a V-1 so quickly.
V1,V2 all the cool toys and the clever folk were looted from Germany by the guys that "won". To the victors the spoils, or something like that.
@@ABrit-bt6ce”won”? Berlin was leveled and hitler committed suicide.
thats all the @alien stuff testet after 1945. lol
@@ABrit-bt6ce Operation Paperclip
@@SVSkyThis predates Operation Paperclip by two years…
There were two thousand JB-2 Loons under construction in January 1945…
In actuality, there were dozens of guided missile projects before the JB-1 Loon. Some entering operational service but most just being prototypes and a large assortment of Cancelled and abandoned projects, most ended due to WWII ending in and funding drying up/no longer needed. The book “Off-Target: Americas guided bombs, missiles and drones 1917-1950” by William wolf is chock full of these programs.
Actually, there were at least two prior attempts, though today we'd probably classify them as drones. The first was between WWI and WWII, using remote controlled obsolete biplanes loaded with explosives. The other was during WWII, where worn out B-17 were going to be filled with explosives, flown part of the way manually, then the rest of the way by remote using primitive TV cameras, with the flight crew jumping out before the turnover. This was cancelled after a mishap where the plane detonated killing the crew led by JFK's older brother Joe Jr..
To also add on, we did develop AShM and some SAM in WWII
However the AShM beung the ASM-N-2 Bat was used compared to the Gorgon which never saw anything beyond testing.
"Primitive TV cameras" was an entirely different line of drones (Interstate TDR), which were actually fairly successful
Go back farther, to 1917 and you'll find the Kettering Aerial Torpedo, aka “Bug”. This was an unmanned biplane bomb with a 180lb warhead and a small prop engine. It was designed to break free from its wings after a predetermined time, causing the bomb to drop. There's a replica of one at the USAF Museum in Dayton.
@@jarink1 THAT"S THE ONE I WAS THINKING OF!!! Thank you for the clarification!
@jarink1 US did it again and called it Project Kingfisher but, so we got aerial torpedo before Germans got guided bomb and torpedoes lul.
Germany also developed the Fritz X and Hs 293 radio-guided bombs
Big ass v1. V1 2.0? V1B?
@@NKY151no, Fritz X was radio guided bomb with stubby wings to somewhat extend it's range (1000 kilogram armour piercing bomb, iirc, it was basically precision guidance kit similar to those used now). Hs 293 was radio guided glider bomb with rocket engine, effectively first anti-ship missile. Both of them were relatively common and integrated on bunch of bombers and naval recon planes, seeing some combat success
@@depressedTrent Yes, and they used the Fritz X in 1943 to sink Italian battleships, after Italy changed to the allied side.
Imagine if it had been used on Germany, how confusing they might find it: "Isn't this one of ours?"
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20% discount for 20% of the video?
We all understand advertising dollars but that was way too long
So... "How Germany changed warfare"
Heh... Yeah, I was kind of thinking the same thing. Lol.
German tech.
No not really heck the Americans deployed the world first autonomous weapons in ww2 (ASM-N-2 Glide bomb)
@@gotanon9659 That's a glide bomb dude. Very different device.
@@gvii The V-1 was a glide bomb too.
There was a Northrop JB-1 located at Northrop Institute of Technology (NIT) an aviation school for A&P mechanics, located near Los Angeles International Airport in the 1960's. I was there from 1965 through 1966 and saw it there many times. I have no idea where it is now.
In the 1950s I had a Revell kit of the USS Nautilus which included a Regulus 1 missile to mount on the deck. The Nautilus never carried such a missile, though.
Point Mugu Missile Park, located in Ventura county, California has the US copy of the V-1, the Loon, displayed at the park along with over a dozen other missiles and several fighter aircraft. Just off of Pacific Coast Highway. Definitely worth a stop to see Loon, Regulas, Polaris and other missiles / drones developed and tested at Pt. Mugu.
I was there two months ago and it Was gone !
It was very rusty as I they used steel.
Hopefully it is being rehabbed .
You mean developed by ex Nazis America never prosecuted for war crimes.😮
Slapping stars and stripes on someone else's tech and calling it "American" is the perfect representation of that era.
5:30 ive never seen or heard of it always learning something new tyvm. Love this channel always top notch content
'Well your Majesty, it's not efficient, nor accurate, & only carries a small payload - but it is very, very loud.'
'Better give it the Americans then, sounds right up their street!' (Grams: Loud cheering at The Palace : )
850 kg of explosives isn't what I would call a small payload.
@@tz8785he's right though. If something makes a big enough boom, its bound to fascinate americans, nomatter how inefficient it is.
The granddaddy of all modern cruise missiles is the Kettering Bug first launched in October 1918. Designed by Charles Kettering for the United States.
Oh good, I'm not the only one who remembers it. They've got a reproduction at the Air Force Museum.
@@Tomyironmane I was thinking about the Kettering Bug the whole time I was watching this video.
@kenheise162
The idea of an "aerial torpedo" was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer in which flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.
In 1916, the American aviator Lawrence Sperry built and patented an "aerial torpedo", the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, a small biplane carrying a TNT charge, a Sperry autopilot and barometric altitude control. Inspired by the experiments, the United States Army developed a similar flying bomb called the Kettering Bug. Germany had also flown trials with remote-controlled aerial gliders (Torpedogleiter) built by Siemens-Schuckert beginning in 1916.
That thing didnt seem to work proprly though
@@S1nwar A common theme, that's why construction projects in Germany still find US-made WW2 bombs that failed to do their job for over 70 years straight.
My God something I have never heard of in the last sixty two years, well done
Northrup always obsessed with flying wings :) . Rumor is that someone showed Jack Northrup a model of the B-2 that was in development.
Yeah about a week before his death or something
@@1dK628 i read somewhere that he had tears in his eyes and said “ I knew it would fly “
they opened a curtain in a inside hangar window viewing area and let him see it on the hangar floor.
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It must be climate change
Klingon ecologist, co-founder of 'Greypiece' & former sheep splitter at Acme-Open kebabs in Bow : )
He's pro-fabulous shirts.
Yeah! Having a place to hide from it all is great! Just close our eyes for 4 years and hope it all goes away! :D
He's not trying to sell us the agenda.
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Hmmm, piloting remotely by tv, radar guided... If I remember correctly, the V-1 just had gyroscopes to keep it's orientation and a prop and rotation counter to determine when to cut the fuel as it should be at it's targeted range. The guidance was so primitive that British pilots would just tip them on the wing to throw them off course. Seems like they missed out on the original intent and that is was to be inexpensive and readily manufactured.
The American variant was designed for submarine launch and had four times the range…
The Ford engine had a 90 minute design life compared to the 30 minutes of the original Argus engine…
@@allangibson8494to be fair, Germans didn't really needed more range and also had He 111 modified for aerial launches of V-1 to deal with range, flexibility and fact launchpads for V-1 where extremely easy targets (so where submarines having to first assemble it and prepare the launching rail)
@@depressedTrent Ford added rubber seals to the engine valves which greatly improve reliability.
Over half of the V-1’s failed to reach England due to mechanical failure with the net result that more people died creating the V weapons than died from their use…
The intent behind the Loon project was to use them for harassment raids on Japan between early November 1945 and April 1946… (assuming that having seventeen atomic bombs dropped on them didn’t persuade them to surrender (that was the Operation Downfall plan - five bombs on cities (two actually used) followed by six on Kyushu in November 1945 to clear the landing beaches, followed by another six on the Kanto plain around Tokyo in April 1946…)).
From all I have seen and read, British pilots flying Typhoons, were the only ones able to match or exceed their speed. A few pilots died when they got too close when they shot at them and caused the V-1's to explode.
@ The Gloster Meteor’s got a few as did the Griffin engined Mk14 Spitfires.
The Mk 14 was about 10% faster than a V-1 running empty and the Meteor was 50% faster.
In 1984 I was 18 and bought my first pulse jet engine, which I still have; I ran it ONCE. It made a noise like a diesel truck horn and got red glowing hot in about 5 seconds-
I haven't messed with that fucking thing since~
Brilliant as always!
Love the classic FORD paint on the LOON
back when they were good
Ford himself was a fascist and his company also produced vehicles for the German military.
@Mitch.Buchannon well we found climate change
@@Mitch.Buchannon business man i see
When I was stationed at Keesler AFB, MS in 1969, there was a JB-2 Loon on static display. I wonder if it is still there?
However the very first attempt at what are now called cruise missiles, was ordered in 1917 by the U.S. Army's Aviation Section of the Signal Corps (the forerunner of today's U.S. Air Force). It was ordered from Charles Kettering and officially called the Kettering Aerial Torpedo but was nicknamed "Kettering Bug". World War I ended before the "Bug" had completed testing so it wasn't needed. So we've come full circle: Kettering Aerial Torpedo to the Fieseler Fi-103 (V-1) to the JB-2 Loon to the BGM-109 Tomahawk.
In 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, our new shopping mall had three bomb shelters on display in the parking lot and a Mace Missile on the back of an 18 wheeler. I believe that the Mace Missile was a descendant of the V-1 & Matador Missiles.
Thank you for another great video.
I think one of these is displayed outside the courthouse in Greencastle, Indiana.
Also on display at the rocket garden at White Sands. Along with a Fat Man casing and all kinds of other cool stuff.
My Uncle was on a troop transport, the H.M.T. Rohna that was sunk by a guided weapon in the Mediterranean in November 1943. 1100 casualties. 💜
That 'Manta' design has a retro/futuristic beauty we often find in old prototypes.
Although the V1 copy was never used in combat, multiple unmanned aircraft bombs were used against the Japanese.
good one...fascinating
Excellent original material, great work!
Great video!
Nice job, good info
Excellent video.
The USAF Northrop SM-62 Snark (1959-61) was another interesting surface to surface cruise missile.
We did with the V1 what Russia did with the B-29. Some technologies transcend politics.
Great video Curios Droid!
Bornholm is midway between Germany and Sweden not Denmark.
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Outstanding presentation! Brilliant
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I never heard of this before.
The first V1 did not land in London, but twenty miles to the east, south of the Thames at Swanscombe, near Dartford, in Kent.
The Danish island of Bornholm is midway between Germany, Poland and Sweden.
My grandpa made a model of the U.S.S. Nautilus with one of these missiles on a launch rack aft of the conning tower.
That V-1 wreckage was exchanged for radar equipment and flown back to the UK in a Mosquito.
I think the same thing happened with an experimental V-2 that was recovered by the Polish resistance,and again flown back to the UK. Pretty sure both were in the hands of the Allies before they were even first fired in anger by the Germans
In the early 1960s the navy had a supply of Regalus missiles that were obsolete by then so they were used as target drones.
Excellent. It fills a data void that has had me curious for years.: the link between Nazi buzz bombs and today's cruise missiles.
Great history on the V-1 and its variants.
IN NYC harbor next to the USS INTREPID. part of the museum complex is the USS GROWLER. a submarine configured to fire these missles.
Fascinating, I had no idea.
The British gave the US a defective V-1. It failed to shut down the pulse jet then dive when over its target so flew on until it ran out of fuel. The V-1 glided down to do a belly landing that should've set off the war head but didn't. The German Arms Ministry was paying 13,000 RM for each V-1. The US Army found a company to make their first copies for $600 apiece.
The V-1 never used to cut the fuel to initiate the dive. It used a small explosive to push and lock the elevator in the max nose down position, the sudden dive caused sometimes an engine stall
If you like pulse jets you gotta check out the guy who makes them and puts them on all kinds of vehicles and rides them out in the desert.
I had no idea the US had copied the V1 until I saw the Loon at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum.
Most of the information on development of V1 and V2 rockets was provided to the British by the Polish intelligence that operated directly in Peenemunde and was reporting regularly to Polish exile govt in London.
The JB-1A is probably used as inspiration for the drones of the movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"
Love your videos man.
The JB-2 Loon wasn’t the first American guided missile.
As the number indicates it wasn’t even the first jet powered one.
The U.S. Navy used piston engined ship launched TV guided missiles (Interstate TDR-1 and similar Naval Aircraft Factory TDN-1) to attack Rabaul in 1944.
The turbojet powered Interstate XBDR-1 was supposed to supersede the these but then a clone of the V-1 rolled into frame which also resulted in the cancellation of the turbojet Northrop JB-1 Bat…
Wild they had a copy had the test stand in a month, just from photos & broken parts.
One of the 1st V1's crash laned in font of a US Ari force officer , he took pictures and used a early fax to send the picture's to the US.
So it wasn’t just myself that found the thumbnail photo/graphic eerily similar to something that seen flying over The English Channel in the early 1940’s in a less fetching shade of grey.
The first cruise missile was the German V-1 operationally starting in June 1944.
The first ballistic missile was the German V-2 operationally starting in September 1944.
The first mass-production operational jet fighter was the German Messerschmitt Me 262 which were in the European battlefields in mid 1944.
All of these came too late in WWII to have any effect on the war.
The US guided missile, while a major step forward in military technology, also ushered in a new era of arms race. As other countries realized that the US could develop and use missile technology effectively, they would seek to develop similar or even surpass it. This could lead to an increase in nuclear threats, asymmetric wars, and the possibility of global war. Therefore, although this technology changes the way war is fought, it could also increase the risk of conflict and military escalation.
It didn't needed stationary launch platforms, this alone was a huge advancement.
There are several JB2 to be seen at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in Oregon. There is also the Spruce Goose on display. And the Regulus ist to be seen together with its launch submarine, the USS Growler, beside the USS Intrepid in New York City.
Interesting video!
Guided missiles are basically kamikaze planes without pilots. It's kind of ironic but also kind of super dark that USA wanted to use unmanned kamikaze planes to attack Japan that was using manned cruise missiles to attack USA due to lack of technology and resources. Look up Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka.
Another fantastic shirt sir
It's a good thing Ford produced the pulsejet engines. If they were made by Boeing, half of them would have fallen off before achieving level flight.
Very interesting!
I saw a JB-2 recently at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. I suspect that it no longer was fitted with the warhead. There was an American copy of the V-2 as well.
Project Orcon.... BF Skinners experiment's in using trained pigeons as seeker heads? The US was also working on a simple "1bit" IR guidance head using conical scanning, similar to what was being used in certain tracking radars.
@4:57, the wingspan of this flying wing by Jack Northrop is exactly the same as the B-2 of today.
They should have engaged the very same people who invented the V1 thus saving a lot of development time.
There was a german woman test pilot that flew a v1,,bit bigger but small cockpit,,,
Probably Hana Reitsch. She could fly anything.
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@@sparky6086 It was her.
There is a movie called the Flying Missile with Glenn Ford about something similar, its on yt somewhere
Video starts here 3:34
Wow, Ford! You reverse engineered the V-1 quick!
(Ford exec looks sideways, then straight ahead).
9:22 *I'd like to read the Moon Rocket story.*
9:47 *There's a motion picture that features that!*
Sir, yes Sir, they won't see this one comin' LOL
Hey, I took pictures of that Regulus 1 this August! 😂
I knew Americans copied the V1 but didn’t know how. Thank you.
America's first guided missile was a V1, explains a lot.
I knew a man that worked on the first tomahawk cruise. He was an absolute genius with math.
Interesting WWII trivia, I had not realized the US copied the German V-1
Excellent
I'm surprised the V-1-based development carried on for so long considering the V-2 followed so quickly afterwards. Didn't the V-2 make V-1-style propulsion obsolete?
The V2 was ridiculously expensive, to the point where they probably caused Germany to lose the war noticeably sooner than if they had never been built. Even with the high failure rate and high rate of being shot down, the V1 delivered explosives to England for much cheaper than the V2 could manage.
4:25 that's a funny way of writing psi
We’re going to ignore the ww2 interstate x1 drones that actually saw a good amount action?
I'm wondering what the Japanese reaction would be when they found out the U.S. was launching it's own kamikazes back at the home islands, w/o pilots.
So Jack Northrop's obsession with flying wings derailed guided missile development so badly that the US needed to copy the V-1 to get back on track? 😂
Nothing spurs innovation like a perceived threat to your existence.
I am quite happy with your offerings. A question popped up in my mind while watching this. Do you have any videos defining what a "droid" is? Aside from the Lucas meaning. Roboten is easy. Sorry if I seem weird or sarcastic but I'm seriously asking this question of you. Because I am also curious.
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Can you do the story of the retro fitting of the Vulcan bombers that bombed stanly airfield, I remember a really good bbc radio 4 program about it, many years ago.
Nice.
Imagine how capable would be V1 when fitted with modern drone controls. I could see Ukraine building them.