Powered Controllable Weapon, a YPQ-12-A Experimental Aerial Missile assembled by airmen at a U.S. Army Air Corps base. Airmen affix bomb onto YPQ-12-A flying craft, then install cover, then install the aerial antennae. YPQ-12-A takes off together with another plane beside. The missile during a flight. Missile hits the target and explodes. Convoy of trucks passes by the wreckage. (World War II period).
A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force such as High Angle Controllable Bombs in Azimuth only, called the Azon Bomb. An Azon Bomb after being dropped from a bomber aircraft from a height of approximately 15000 feet. The bomb glides through air and moves speedily towards its target on ground. The glide is controlled by fins on its tail. (World War II period).
A review of remote controlled weapons of the United States Army Air Force such as the Power Driven Bomb. A U.S. Army Air Force base, airmen drag out a test power bomb, an AT-21 aircraft and a target plane PQ-2. The control system instruments of the power bomb in its cockpit are shown, indication meters and controllers. Planes take off simultaneously on a runway, PQ-2 gliding in sky. AA outfit in the desert. Anti-aircraft guns fires on plane. Projectiles burst near the PQ-2 airplane. Both aircraft land on a runway. Flak holes in PQ-2 fuselage. (World War II period).
China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. U.S. Army Air Force Technicians perform laboratory tests and check the working of control systems of an Azon Bomb at a laboratory in Burma. Technicians check an Azon Bomb's tail section kept on a test bench with various control equipment and instruments at a laboratory. Meters and indicators display results of the test.
China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. B-29 bombers of the 7th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force land one after the other at their base airfield in India. Landing after completing their mission of bombardment at the railroads in Burma. Taxi jeeps and people near the runway are visible. Puff of dust emerges as a B-29 lands on the runway.
Newsreel titled 'US Demonstrates Latest Rockets'. United States soldiers fire rockets from a launcher. An airplane of the United States Army Air Force launches a rocket while in the sky. The rocket strikes and destroys its target in sea. A Rapid Fire launcher launches continued rockets. A landing craft of the United States Navy has rockets launched from its deck by rocket launchers.
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