Meet the Bat: Introducing the World's First Smart Weapon
Following numerous setbacks and disappointments, the Bat was proven under combat conditions. On May 27, 1945, U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant Leo Kennedy was patrolling from his station at Yonton Field in Okinawa. These were the closing months of the war in the Pacific, and Kennedy’s mission was to destroy any enemy shipping he could find. Hanging from the outboard stations of his Consolidated PB4Y Privateer aircraft were two very secret, odd-looking, wooden glide bombs. Kennedy’s squadron had been equipped that April with the new weapon, and so far the results had been mixed. This new glid...
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