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In short: an aerial bomb whose flight can be slightly corrected to hit targets more precisely. A fundamentally new weapon in War Thunder!
The PC-1400X (Fritz-X) isn’t just the first guided bomb in our game, but the first bomb accepted into service that was used in combat conditions to destroy a surface target. The German scientist and inventor, Max Kramer began developing a means to increase the accuracy of aerial bombs back in 1938. The engineer insisted that, to achieve high accuracy, the bomb must be equipped with remote control. After the arrival of Dr. Kramer to the science laboratories of the Ruhrstahl company, the warhead of the PC-1400 Fritz bomb was selected as a basis for the new bomb. By the beginning of 1942, the first prototype models of the experimental Fritz-X guided bomb were delivered to the Peenemünde training ground, and a few weeks later, tests were performed in Italy. The tests showed that the bomb’s variance was under 28 metres, and in 1943, the wonder weapon was put into service.
In total, 1386 PC-1400X Fritz-X bombs were produced, and 108 bombs were dropped in combat conditions. The first was the very famous episode of German bombers using the Fritz-X to attack the Italian navy while it was on its way to Malta to surrender to the allies. As a result of the attack from a height of 4000–5000 metres, the battleship Italia took one hit and one nearby explosion, but survived. The battleship Roma was less lucky: the first bomb broke through the battleship’s deck to the starboard(right) of her main turrets, penetrating right through her hull and exploding below the keel. The second bomb hit the central main gun turret and exploded beneath the bow turbine compartment. As a result, the gun magazines detonated and the Roma was destroyed.
The Fritz-X is a guided armour-piercing bomb weighing 1570 kg, with an explosive content weighing 320 kg. The bomb was equipped with duralumin fins and a stabilizer, it also had a set of radio equipment. The bomb was guided by radio signal from an aircraft using a special joystick. The bomb’s flight could be tracked and its course corrected through the bomb sight. Bright tracing lights lit up in the tail section of the bomb after launch.
In our game, the Fritz-X bomb will arrive with update 1.79 Project-X, and for now it will be accessible on two bombers – the He 177 and the He 111H-6. The guiding system allows the bomb’s flight course to be corrected slightly. It is suitable for destroying larger ships. Particularly skilled pilots can even try to destroy tanks with the bomb – even an indirect hit will be an unpleasant surprise.
You can test out this new type of weaponry very soon – as soon as War Thunder update 1.79 Project X is released!
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Comments (115)
The Do 217 K series should have access to the Fritz X: most Fritz X's were dropped via these bombers
But are you sure the bomb was dropped from a K1? I've heard it was from K2 or K3 variants.
this might be useful when we get ships
This is going to be interesting, i can see people playing RB fliying +5k(meters) and throwing the bomb to all these anoying objects 120 camping on their base. It really is easy to aim and kill a ground unit with it, you may need more experience for blowing up for mobing targets, but all i can say this is clearly one of the best addons in this update, and dont forget the little armored car with 20mm cannon and 97mm of pen at tier 1 yay
The only unit that used the FritzX was primarily equipped with Do-217s. Are there plans to allow Do-217s to carry it in the future?
it does not cost them much time to do so, sort of a copy paste and a reskin. I think there's a high chance we will see more variants in the futur
traeng, The K-2, or M-11, has a number of significant differences. not a copy/paste
Great work again Gaijin! Is it possible that we may see things similar on other bombers? Like the ASM-A-1 Tarzon on the B 29 for example
I'm in love <3
Watched a documentary where a bunch of military enthusiasts built a replica (without payload, of course) and dropped it off of a b25 at a mockup warship they created somewhere in Arizona (iirc). Was interesting to watch, and showed how easy this thing was to use, even back then. After only 2 attempts they managed to get an almost direct hit, without any prior practice. Pretty impressive considering they were aiming at a small black outline and not an actual ship.
The B-25 crew messed it up, badly. They wanted more nose ballast, but that changed the CG to point it could not really be steered. Had they kept the FX the way it was made (correctly), it would hit target. And then the tail camera failed, so could not see the flight. Finally, was dropped way too low. The test was a big failure.
Pony51, Interesting. I remembered some trouble, especially with the first drop, but I did not recall anything about those changes. Then again, it was probably cut out of the documentary on purpose. Nonetheless it was an interesting watch, you don't get so much close up and personal footage of old planes in our regular TV broadcasts. And what footage you get is usually good old 8mm film tape from soldiers with cameras or propaganda movies :D.
i didn't see that coming ... hence Project X. Its more like XXX ! Nice move, Gaijin.
There are 4 letters in Fxxx!
Will we see other guided bomb's? The AZON bomb was used on the b24. and the RAZON bomb was used on b29 in Korean war. I love the idea of b29 being used in ground and naval forces to bomb things XD just a huge plane.
were are ter 6 planes stop doing more tanks and get ter 6 planes a lot of plays dont play tank you no and we have not seen a good thing with them for a long time
unbalanced. Try a T-64 vs A-10. Gameover.
traeng, That's because tanks are obsolete in modern conflict. Planes>tanks. Besides the A10 is a rather late aircraft to add to tier six, there's many other jet options they could go with.
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