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  • From Nazi Germany to Argentina - A Proposal for the World’s First Small, Supersonic Cruise Missile

    03/27/2017 7:14:46 PM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 15 replies
    Zona Militar ^ | MARCH 27, 2017 | GONZALO RENGEL
    @aleklicho art Argentina was almost the first country to develop a small, supersonic cruise missile. Way back in 1960. On May 30 of that year, Dr. Reimar Horten — a former warplane designer for Nazi Germany — met with officials at the Aerotechnical Institute of Argentina’s Military Aircraft Factory, or FMA, to propose what he described as “supersonic flying bomb.” Horten had emigrated to Argentina after World War II, leaving behind his brother, an equally accomplished aeronautical engineer. Although Horten cast his flying bomb as a logical evolution of Germany’s wartime V-1 buzz bomb, in concept it had more in common with today’s supersonic...