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Many a scientist was sure that it was only a question of time-perhaps five or ten years-before vastly bigger, farther-flying bombs can be dropped accurately on a target by radio control. The No. 1 U.S. expert on remote-controlled weapons, Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. of Gloucester, Mass., recalled a 1929 prediction : "The war of the future will last hours instead of years...
...devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile to the target...
Long Odds. As a precision instrument of war the robot is something to make soldiers weep. It probably cannot be "aimed" at any target smaller than a fair-sized city. The Germans themselves admitted that it could not be used on the Normandy battleground without endangering their own troops...
...gyro device can only hold the bomb on a single compass heading. Winds may drift it miles to one side; headwinds may bring it down miles short. The chance of hitting a good military target is good only because there are a lot of military targets in southern England...
...first robot bombs hit at night. Then for five days last week they crashed down on southern England. British authorities, unwilling to tell the enemy what he was hitting, suppressed all details of the places struck (German propaganda implied that London was the chief target), but acknowledged that damage had been done, people hurt and killed. If any military targets were hit, the Germans did not get the satisfaction of learning about...