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To: KarlInOhio

Sorry if I sounded Snarky about cruise missiles.

5 posted on 11/04/2012 9:51:06 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)

To: KarlInOhio

Ah, yes, the Snark-infested waters off Cape Canaveral. A lot of them didn’t get very far post launch.

9 posted on 11/04/2012 10:00:10 AM PST by stboz

To: KarlInOhio

The US Navy was developing a "cruise missile" during WWI.

A mini biplane launched from a rail, maybe 1/4 size or so. Engine had a counter to drop the ordnance.

When the Army found out the Navy was developing such a weapon, they hired inventor Charles Kettering to develop one for the Army.

I think the war ending before the projects were proved, and Kettering went on to run GM.

During WWII, the US Navy again was looking at a "cruise missile", the German V-1, to bombard Japan.

Again, the war ended...

12 posted on 11/04/2012 10:34:32 AM PST by Calvin Locke

To: KarlInOhio

and MATADOR and MACE and REGULUS.

time to reread WAR IN 2020 by ralph peters.

21 posted on 11/04/2012 11:47:51 AM PST by bravo whiskey ( by ralph peters.)

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