Admiral Beez
Captain
Given Britain's interwar experience with drone aircraft I have to wonder if they'd had more luck with radio controlled glide weapons rather than this attempt at predictable, unguided bearing and glide slope.
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In WW II (and for a while after that) the hang around and direct it, part usually meant flying over the target or close to it. Which allows some medium range AA fire to get in a few shots. Trying to judge 'aim' while being off axis is rather difficult. If you are directly over the bomb/torpedo you have a much better chance of figuring out if it is going left or right of the target. Going long or short is harder. But trying to do that when flying a different course with a changing angle on both the target and "weapon" is pretty much luck.2. The weapon is then not, in modern day terms, "fire & forget". A launch aircraft needs to hang around to direct it. And that exposes it to long range AA fire & enemy fighters.