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- From: Thomas Zych <tz10956@meibm17.cen.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Re: LTV N-2???
- Message-ID: <By4LHB.CpE@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <Bxyuv5.FJx@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:22:23 GMT
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- From Thomas Zych <tz10956@meibm17.cen.uiuc.edu>
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- "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil> writes:
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- >From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- >At a recent postcard show I picked up an extremely interesting card:
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- >The picture is of a submarine, apparently an unmodified GATO/BALAO (?)
- >class, firing a vehicle which closely resembles a V-1 ("buzz bomb")
- >rearward from a ramp.
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- >The V-1-lookalike is basically white, with red and yellow wide
- >single
- >bands around the nose. The pulse-jet unit is dark gray.
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- >The caption says "LTV-N-2 Being Launched from Submarine". It's a fairly
- >old card, as the printer's address has no ZIP code.
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- Just off the top of my head - i.e. this could be completely wrong.
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- I believe this was known as the Regulus missle, and was indeed almost a direct
- copy of the German V-1. Not sure on numbers or intended usage, but from the
- immediate post-WW2 period. From the paint scheme, sounds like a test missle.
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