looked like, but from various intelligence sources, American engineers sketched out their best guess as to the weapon’s dimensions. Within two days, Merle Tuve’s scientists had assembled a full-scale model of the drone, covered it in chicken wire to reflect radio waves, and strung it up between the two towers. With only a 20-foot wingspan, it was much smaller than a normal aircraft—a little over half the width of a Japanese Zero. Gunners needed the most sensitive fuses available to ensure that rounds exploded at the ideal distance: within 25 feet. An analysis of the New Mexico tests concluded that if the anti-aircraft guns were accurate enough in their aim, the fuse had an 86 percent chance of knocking a V-1 out of the sky.
Within days, the test results were on their way to England.ALL of which piece by piece, by the time of the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1, led to the creation of ...
THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (ARPA)
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