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Operation Aphrodite
| Aphrodite, BQ-7, BQ-8 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Radio-controlled aircraft as guided missiles |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1944 |
| Used by | United States Army Air Forces (Aphrodite) United States Navy (Anvil) |
| Specifications | |
| Warhead | Payload: around 20,000 lb (9,100 kg) Torpex[1] |
Guidance system | Azon (TV sensor, radio control) Castor (radar & TV sensors, radio control) |
Aphrodite was the World War II code name of a United States Army Air Forces operation to use worn out Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated PB4Y bombers as radio controlled flying bombs against bunkers and other hardened or reinforced enemy facilities. A parallel project by the United States Navy was codenamed Anvil.[2] The missions were not generally successful, and the intended targets in Europe were either overrun by the ground advance of Allied troops or disabled by conventional attacks by aircraft.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Freemanwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Spark, Nick T. (October 2004). "Television Goes to War". Secret Arsenal: Advanced American Weapons of WWII. Archived from the original on 17 April 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
Originally published in Wings magazine in October 2004
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