Britain and the Flying Bomb: The Research Programme between the Two World Wars

• Autores: John Farquharson
• Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 13, Nº. 3, 2006, págs. 363-379
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article evaluates British work on unmanned aircraft and guided missiles in the interwar years. It emphasizes radio control from the ground or from a parent plane in the air. Britain's relative failure in this field compared to Germany reflected a lack of financial support combined with consistent overestimating of conventional bombing's accuracy on the part of both RAF officers and civilian scientists.