Name |
Description |
#books |
Henschel Hs 293 Air-to-Ship Glider Bomb |
A WW2 German anti-ship guided missile that was a radio controlled glide bomb with a rocket engine underneath it. Flares were attached to the rear to make it visible at a distance to the operator. | 1 |
Rocket |
A missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket before use and work by simply by expelling their exhaust in the opposite direction at high speed. | 1 |
V-1 Flying bomb |
An early pulse-jet-powered cruise missile, the very first production aircraft of any type to use a pulsejet for power. The first one was launched at London on 13 June 1944 and also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug. | 1 |
V-2 rocket |
The world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile with a liquid-propellant rocket engine was developed during WW2 in Germany. Over 3,000 were launched against Allied targets during the war from September 1944. | 1 |