Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Bijschrift: A handout photograph made available by British auction house, International Autograph Auctions on 11 December 2008 showing outlandish plans for a high-precision bomb developed by the Luftwaffe at the end of the Second World War which have emerged, shedding light on German desperation to find a weapon that would offer a decisive advantage. The pencil sketches, which were seized by Allied soldiers at Hitlerís Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1945, show an aircraft consisting of a small dart-shaped glider attached to a 1,000kg bomb. The Silent Dart was intended to overcome the inaccuracy of aerial bombardment by allowing a pilot to accompany a bomb to a low altitude before releasing his payload. kamikaze mission, but without the death of the pilot. The glider would have used the tungsten-cored flying principle of a pub dart. It would be released from a mother ship and then directed by a pilot, which is not a job I would want. The plans, which are estimated to fetch up to £3,000, will be auctioned at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Heathrow, West London by International Autograph Auctions. EPA/INTERNATIONAL AUTOGRAPH AUCTIONS / HO