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I was rather disappointed that this article wasn’t about the worlds first guided missile, that was used to hunt ships in the pacific in WW2 — it was called the

I was rather disappointed that this article wasn’t about the worlds first guided missile, that was used to hunt ships in the pacific in WW2 — it was called the Bat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-N-2_Bat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-N-2_Bat

24gttghh 8y ago
I hate to be that guy, but it was a guided bomb. The Germans made the Fritz X, also a glide-bomb, and it came before the Bat. I believe the V-1 is still the first "guided missile", i.e. self-propelled.