Fritz X Guided Bomb

Fritz X was the most common name for a German air-launched anti-ship missile, used during World War II. Fritz X was a nickname used both by Allied and Luftwaffe personnel. Alternate names include Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X, Kramer X-1, PC 1400X or FX 1400. The latter is also the origin for the name "Fritz X". Along with the USAAF's similar Azon weapon of the same period in World War II, it is one of the precursors of today's anti-ship missiles and precision-guided weapons.

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• guided
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• anti-ship
• missile
• precision-guided
• weapons
• Ruhrstahl
• SD
• 1400

[marienfeld07]

Indeed the German were outnumbered and outgunned, but never outclassed. This was superb technology, stolen from them, forbiden to research after WWII, and put into practice by the americans, british and ruskis today. Amazing!!

[WillyMcCoy50]

Holy Shit!!

[marienfeld07]

The Fritz X was mainly used against ships with quite a success. Another example is the All-Wing the Horten 229 that with the devolopment of new materials is that father of the stealth aircraft. This means that the stolen blueprints were kept in a safe, until the americans managed to create the stealths, and we know the rest. When you see this kind of technology, you can answer the question why Germany is forbiden to build fighters; the allies're afraid of the deutsches. Very good video!

[Weibkoln]

@88Phobos The reason why we did not use the Abombs is because, we used it against Russia, and it did NOT work!!!

Instead of making the enemy stop with fighting,

the Abombs made the Russians fighting evin way harder!!!

So for America we thought it would turn into the same problem, therefor we did not use it anymore...

My grandpa told, that we putted Abombs on airfields with orange roof above it,

and the Americans knew, sothat they did NOT trew bombs on the A-bombs!!!

[Weibkoln]

@88Phobos BTW; my grandpa said that, the UFO, (flying disc) could fly, but not fast enough, as well as not high enough, plus that it could NOT carry anything with it, or else it would not evin leave the ground...

So that was NO option, ((evin not with modern jetengines))

rockets dont work, because a rocket cannot stop & start, so then you keep going higher and higher till the rocket is done.

A other problem was flying forward in a straight line, with other words,

flying discs are no option

[Weibkoln]

@88Phobos

the A bomb was allready made, and in Germany, a few hundreds to be precisely.

just like the B52 and the B1 bombers,

and my grandpa claimed to have flown in a F17 ((exactly the one of these days)),

But the one of my grandpa couldnt shoot with guns, because he did not have guns...

O and by the way,

the A-10 warthog, was called, Heinkel-Kameleon by the germans in ww2, only 7 were build and put into action on the Russian front...

a few A-bombs were used in Russia to!!!

[Weibkoln]

@marienfeld07

Yes just like our atomic bombs that fall at Japan

[88Phobos]

TRUE nothing NEW since nazi scientists, atleast notmuch...

OR real secretweapons are kept in REALGOOD hidingplaces, i think most U.F.O sightings are really manmade "somekind" space/air crafts???

Must be thatway, cause over 1000 nazi scientists went to usa after ww2. Didnt took long till nazi scientists completed A-bomb for U.S etc... 1st A-bomb tested were made in germany, atleast its outerior

(that ball-looking, seaminestyle A-bomb.)

[Wieland1985]

Made in Germany! watch?v=kjQR-BV9HIc

[vonkaunaz]

@19hobbes : The Allies overclaimed on the effectiveness of the countermeasure they used against the German ASMs. Still, with such defense, the Germans continued to hit enemy ships in the Med. In the end, what you should ask is that if 70 years ago, the German ASMs, seeing limited service, proved so lethal, destroying 1 battleship, badly damaging another 2 (Littorio and Warspite), plus sinking or damaging cruisers, destroyers and other vessels, think of what a modern-day supersonic ASM can do.

[ebutpeter]

Now I know were the US got , sorry stole, most of 'their' inventions.

The American B2 stealth bomber... the Germans designed it. Werner Von Braun, the German genius of NASA built the first rocket as Nazi - the V2. Messerschmidt 262 was the first jet fighter plane - we can go on all day. Absolute brilliant and all this happened already nearly 70 years ago - German brilliancy - US copy cats.

[camlpg]

... even the German contributor to the project gave up for the second try. Without the radio controlled guidance system it is highly unlikely that they would be successful with even a stationary target and the bomb being dropped at 2500 feet. The German bombardier in 1940s dropped the bomb from approximately 20,000 feet and the success rate was very high.