the American scientist Alfred Lee Loomis with the rest of the MIT Radiation Laboratory actually designed a fully autonomous anti-aircraft gun connected to a radar system. Those guns were the most effective counter for the V1 flying bombs.JollyRogerVF-17 wrote:
In 1935, British engineer Robert Watson-Watt was working on a “death ray” that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves. His “death ray” instead evolved into radar—or “radio detection and ranging.”
Jack London, White Fang
My parents once told me not to play with matches, so I built a flamethrower