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	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org - Luftwaffe Resource Center - Enzian E-4 Surface To Air Missile
		The Enzian, as were practically all German guided missiles, was directed to the target vicinity by radio control.
		Although the mixture, Salbei and Visol, is spontaneously inflammable, the Enzian motor used an electrically ignited powder starter in the combustion chamber to effect ignition.
		When the missile's approach to the target came within the operating range of the particular selfseeking head employed, the latter would assume control and direct the Enzian to the target's proximity on a modified homing course.
	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /LRG/enzian.html (1634 words)

	Enzian missile
		The Enzian (named for a type of mountain flower, the Gentian Violet[?]) was a WWII anti-aircraft missile that has the distinction of being the first to use an infra-red guidance system.
		Other German missiles were high-speed designs that could be flown directly at their target along the line of sight, easy enough to do even from the ground.
		The Enzian would instead be approaching its target from somewhere in front, which is considerably harder for the operator.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/en/Enzian_missile.html (915 words)

	Enzian missile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Enzian (named for a type of mountain flower, the Gentian Violet) was a WWII surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile that has the distinction of being the first to use an infra-red guidance system.
		For the same reasons a new type of Walter rocket was envisioned, a modification of the engine in the Me 163 that would burn coal-gas (benzine) instead of the hydrogen peroxide used in other Walter designs (although a small amount of peroxide was used to drive the fuel pumps).
		Other German missiles were high-speed designs that could be flown directly at their target along the line of sight, easy enough to do even from the ground.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/e/en/enzian_missile.html (928 words)

	Enzian Missile
		The aim was also to produce a missile which could be built with a low number of man-hours per unit, and launched easily and quickly, powered by fuels which were not required for other forces.
		Flights 21-29 discovered that the pitch stability of the Enzian was quite satisfactory without the planned free and rate gyros, which tended to make the response of the missile sluggish under radio control.
		Enzian was not favoured by the Flak Ministerium, and other projects, most notably Schmetterling were given higher priority; (Schmetterling gained favour because of its smaller size and therefore ease of handling).
	www.walter-rockets.i12.com /missiles/enzian2.htm (966 words)

	Anti-aircraft warfare - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starting in the post-World War II era the guns were joined by the guided missile, specifically the "surface-to-air missile", and today both are used in combination in most roles.
		Originally missiles were useful only as a replacement for the very largest of anti-aircraft guns, but by the 1960s they had been scaled down to the point where they were also replacing smaller weapons previously serviced by guns in the 40 mm to 57 mm range.
		Air defence by air forces is typically taken care of by fighter jets carrying air-to-air missiles which is beyond the scope of this article, however most air forces choose to augment air base defence with surface-to-air missile systems as they are such valuable targets for enemy aircraft.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/FlaK (3476 words)

	Enzian missile
		The Enzian (named for a type of mountain flower, the Gentian Violet[?]) was a WWII anti-aircraft missile that has the distinction of being the first to use an infra-red guidance system.
		For the same reasons a new type of Walter[?] rocket was envisioned, a modification of the engine in the Me 163 that would burn coal-gas (benzine[?]) instead of the hydrogen peroxide used in other Walter designs (although a small amount of peroxide was used to drive the fuel pumps).
		The Enzian would instead be approaching its target from somewhere in front, which is considerably harder for the operator.
	www.factspider.com /en/enzian-missile.html (1074 words)

	Remote Piloted Aerial Vehicles : The 'Aerial Target' and 'Aerial Torpedo' in Germany
		Enzian was a surface-to-air, powerful anti-aircraft missile designed to be fast enough and powerful enough to bring down a high flying enemy bomber with a proximity burst.
		The missile was a cylindrical body carrying a pointed warhead, with a pair of wings and upper and lower fins set at ninety degrees to the wings....
		The Enzian was conceived as a ground to air flak weapon.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/rpav_germany_mess.html (400 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Enzian missile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Enzian (named for a type of mountain flower, the Gentian Violet[?]) was a WWII anti-aircraft missile that has the distinction of being the first to use an infra-red guidance system.
		A new design known as Madrid then gained favour, and it is for this reason the Enzian reamins famous.
		However the Enzian was judged further from completion that Henshell[?]'s Schmetterling missile[?] at the time, so it was cancelled.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/en/Enzian_missile (940 words)

	missile, target, mirror, front, could, while, small, rocket, flight, projects, possible, flown, effort - Enzian
		The Enzian (named for a type of mountain flower, the Gentian Violet) was a WWII surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile that has the distinction of being the first to use an infrared guidance system.
		Other German missiles were high-speed designs that could be flown directly at their target along the line of sight, easy enough to do even from the ground.
		The missile's control system then had the task of attempting to point the missile in the same direction as the mirror.
	www.alphasearch.org /Enzian.html (1065 words)

	Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
		The Enzian was a ground-to-air missile carrying a 500kg warhead.
		Enzian was a ground-to-air pilotless aircraft which had a similar outline to the Me 163 target-defence interceptor fighter, for it was essentially a small aircraft with sharply swept-back wings.
		As in the Me 163, two ailerons were incorporated for control purposes, but at launching Enzian was mounted on a large inclined platform from which take-off at a high angle was assisted by means of solid-propellant boosters mounted in pairs at the wing roots.
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/gravity/alpha/e.html (1509 words)

	nots6.html
		By continually trying to turn the missile body toward the current direction of the telescope, the missile would guide toward the target using what is known as a pure pursuit.
		The missile's main components are an infrared homing guidance section, an active optical target detector, a high-explosive warhead, and a rocket motor.
		One of the primary defenses against an infrared heat seeking missile is the firing of flares as a countermeasure.
	www.high-desert-memories.com /nots7.html (1670 words)

	sa
		A generator gives sufficient power to batteries for ignition: when the missile is launched, a first and then a second motor is ignited.
		The Enzian was assisted in its takeoff by 4 lateral rockets which provides in-flight stabilization.
		This missile was a ground version of the Sidewinder, but with a better explosive char ge and a more sensible infrared seeker head.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /chad/95/sa.html (911 words)

	Wasserfall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rheinland used a transponder in the missile for locating it in flight (as read by a radio direction finder (RDF) on the ground) and a radar unit for tracking the target.
		A simple mechanical computer guided the missile into the tracking radar beam as soon as possible after launch, using the transponder and RDF to locate it, at which point the operator could see both "blips" on a single display, and guide the missile onto the target as during the day.
		To use the missile, the player must enter a silo- at which point the view switches to that of a nose-cam on the missile, allowing the player to guide the Wasserfall in-flight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wasserfall_missile (841 words)

	HWK 109-739 Motor
		Because the Walter motor took a few seconds to come to full power, Enzian was also equipped with four Rheinmetall-Borsig solid fuel booster rockets which could propel the missile off the launch ramp to full flight during the time the Walter spun up to flight speed.
		The peroxide in the on-board tank is free to vent fumes to the atmosphere through a valve during periods when the missile is fuelled but stored.
		When the missile is launched, an electrical impulse detonates two cartridges which pierce the bursting disc, allowing air to escape through a filter.
	www.walter-rockets.i12.com /missiles/109739.htm (916 words)

	::Germany and Rocket Development::
		Such was the impact made by German scientists such as von Braun, that their developments spear-headed post-war missile developments both in weapons and in space exploration.
		Both men, Huckel and Winkler, were enthusiasts who probably had no inkling that by 1945, their own countrymen would develop missiles that had the sole purpose of destruction of property and people.
		The V1 was a winged missile propelled by a petrol-fuel pulse-jet.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /germany_and_rocket_development.htm (744 words)

	German Secret Weapons of WWII (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Fi 103 was a small aircraft, with a wing span of 5.3m or 4.87m depending on the model.
		The Rheinbote was a four-stage, unguided long-range artillery missile.
		Surface-to-air missile, in development until it was replaced by more promising designs in 1941.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/gweapons.html (2954 words)

	Spaceline: U.S. Astronaut Drafts, 1959 to Present
		Hundreds of V-2 missiles were manufactured and test launched through 1944 to validate the performance of the vehicle and train the troops that would deploy it.
		Identifying the missile as radio-guided, the British incorrectly concluded that the new German weapon would be radio-guided and subject to radio jamming as a defensive method.
		The missile was aided at launch by a single solid-fueled JATO unit, and employed six stabilizing fins in the rear and four control fins at the forward.
	www.spaceline.org /history/4.html (7162 words)

	Matt Klaene
		Another type of missiles was air to surface and an example of this was the Hs 294.
		It was guided by autopilot and wire command guidance and was used as an anti-ship missile, but not very effective, due to the fact that when the missile struck water it would stray away from the target.
		The other missile is the Hs 293, which have a span of 10 feet and a length of 11 feet.
	www.nku.edu /~eng/02/luftwaffe2.htm (2453 words)

	Rheinmetall-Borsig F25 & F55 Feuerlilie anti-aircraft missile
		The "Feuerlilie" (Fire Lilly) anti-aircraft missile program was begun as a high-speed research program by the Forschungsführung (the Research Control section)of the RLM to obtain data for future guided missiles.
		There were small fins at the tips of the swept-back wing, and there was a single fin at the rear of the fuselage having a high mounted tailplane with elevators working together or differentially for control.
		Three missiles were launched, of which one was a sucess.
	www.luft46.com /missile/rheinf55.html (494 words)

	Enzian missile
		The Enzian (named for a type of mountain flower, the Gentian Violet) was a WWII surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile that has the distinction of being the first to use an infra-red guidance system.
		A new design known as Madrid then gained favour, and it is for this reason the Enzian remains famous.
		However the Enzian was judged further from completion than Henschel's Schmetterling missile at the time, so it was cancelled.
	www.fact-index.com /e/en/enzian_missile.html (937 words)

	Missiles Guided Weapons World War II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of them never received their engines since the BMW factory in Stargard, where they were produced, had been seriously damaged by the Allied bombers.
		After launch from a Me 262 jet fighter or a Focke-Wulf 190 the missile accelerated to 520 mph (840 km/h) with a BMW 109-448 rocket motor.
		The Hs 293 was based on a normal 500 kg (1,102 lb) bomb with wings and fins added and an engine suspended from the main body.
	www.ww2guide.com /missiles.shtml#azon (2849 words)

	V-2 rocket (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The missile was delivered to a staging area on a Vidalwagen (made by Vidal) and the local crews installed the warhead.
		An A4/V-2 test rocket carrying prototype guidance systems for the Wasserfall missile project, effectively a V-2 rocket converted to an anti-aircraft role, was launched from Peenemünde on June 13, 1944 and crashed in Sweden.
		Accurately targeted missiles were often devastating, causing large numbers of deaths - about 160 in one explosion in a Woolworths department store in New Cross, south-east London and 567 deaths in a cinema in Antwerp - and significant damage in the critically important Antwerp docks.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_V-2_rocket.html (4322 words)

	Had the germans build SAM's instead of V2's? - Military Photos
		The F55 was the last stage of a surface-to-air missile project.
		The missile never saw operational service, although principles learnt from the project were undoubtedly used in other Surface-to-Air Missile projects.
		Even though the Germans had used radio control missile in air to surface missile, I doubt that ground guidance using sight up to 20,000 feet would have been possible, let alone practical.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=3978 (1355 words)

	The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - Late war possibilities for the Luftwaffe
		The use of wire guidance by the pilot (or even a dedicated missile operator in a multi-engined aircraft) would have resulted in a very low hit probability (see 1st generation wire guided AT missiles like sagger, snapper, SS-11 or Kobra for example).
		Rockets and missiles are generally much less effeicient than guns when it comes to manufacturing and logistics resources.
		Hmm, in general rockets or missiles take more fuel and metal per equivalant weight of warhead since you end up haveing to move the tube and some of the fuel.
	www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3961 (2308 words)

	Historical Monograph
		An early analysis of the antiaircraft guided missile problem confirmed the fact that a ground-controlled guided missile would be required, because of the specification for long range and the requirement of countering maneuver.
		It showed good likelihood that an effective surface-to-air guided missile could be evolved by extending radar and electronic computer techniques developed during the war, and by exploring the little known realms of supersonic flight.
		X and computer, and the development of the guidance and missile control system, as well as the missile borne responder and command receiver system.
	ed-thelen.org /mono-1-2.html (3009 words)

	Eazian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Enzian was a German guided missile developed by Messerschmitt AG in 1943 - 44.
		It was first designed as a ground-to-air missile, but later proposals envisaged using it as a ground to ground or even antitank weapon.
		Guidance was by radio link, an operator relying on optical or radar tracking to get the missile into the target area, after which an infrared homing head or radar homing head would take over and guide the missile to its target.
	www.atlantikwall.org.uk /new_page_46.htm (158 words)

	LemaireSoft's Enzian: global missile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When taking off, the missile was propelled by auxiliary rocket engines, later by a cruising rocket engine.
		The frequent change of specifications delayed the progress of the work so much, that the weapon was far from ready when the program was dropped in January of 1945.
		Supersonic variant of the Enzian, proposed by Messerschmitt.
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /avion/avion1/78.html (159 words)

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