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From: thos@softway.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Missles
Summary: Typhoon Vs V1
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.014712.2867@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:47:12 GMT
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From: thos@softway.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen)
In article <1991Feb5.044322.6890@cbnews.att.com> fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>
>He never went after a V-1, but he knew "Tiffy" pilots who did.  (Shooting
>one down wasn't a really good idea: if close enough to reliably hit the
>thing, you were likely to be too close when it went *bang*!)
>

Interestingly enough, when they did blow up a V1 in mid air (using
20mm cannons, you could probably do this 400m away) they invariably
flew throught the explosion and came out upside down. It seems that 
once there was no air pressure on the wings in the vacuum of the
explosion, the propeller of the Typhoon had enough torque to flip the
plane. Apparently confused them mightily for a while. Of course, this
wouldn't have happened with a Meteor, but the debris would be more
likely to damage the engines.
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