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The battleship Roma was sunk by the radio controlled Fritz X bomb; the mother of all smart weapons.
At least the Italians knew how to build handsome warships.


10 posted on 09/12/2013 5:54:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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The battleship Roma was sunk by the radio controlled Fritz X bomb; the mother of all smart weapons. At least the Italians knew how to build handsome warships.

Handsome but not vulnerable. See yesterday's discussion of the RC X bomb hit on the Savannah. Starts at reply #12. See especially reply #17.

9/11/43

11 posted on 09/12/2013 2:22:43 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The last moments of the Roma.


14 posted on 09/12/2013 8:08:52 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (I aim to misbehave.)
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the mother of all smart weapons.

Or at least a grand cousin. The US already had smart weapons they just weren't deploying them. Heck we even had armed unmanned aerial vehicles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_TDR
15 posted on 09/16/2013 10:03:34 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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