German Secret Weapons Quiz

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WHat are these and which of them saw active service?

1. Fieseler Fi 103

2. Fritz-X

3. A-4

4. Mistel

5. Bv 246 Hagelkorn

6. Feuerlilie

7. Hs 117 Schmetterling

8. Taifun

9. Kramer X-4

10. R4M

11. Kramer X-7 Rotkäppchen

12. FuG 227 Flensburg

13. FuG 240 Berlin

14. FuGM 80 Freya

15. Knickebein

16. Ba 349 Natter

17. Mauser MG 213C

18. Spanner I

19. X-Geräte

20. Naxos
 
1) The official designation of the V-1.

3) Another name for the V-2.

4) A Ju-88 with a Fw-190 mounted on top. The fighter was essentially a large, unguided missile.

8) An anti-aircraft rocket.

16) This was a jet propelled plane that used multiple unguided rockets as an armament. The plane had a high wing over the fuselage and the rockets were stored in the nose.

12, 13, 14) The FuG all indicate a radar set of some kind. I know Freya was a radar set for sure.

17) This was the first airborne, rotary type canon.

Hmm, gotta think some more..

/bruce
 
HE, HE, one of my favorite topics!:p

2.) Some kind of bomb, full name I think is Kramer X-1.

5.) Another bomb for high altitude bombing runs.

6.) Air defense rocket.

7.) Another kind of air defense rocket.

9.) That should be a guideable rocket for air combat.

11.) Another Kramer rocket, this time Air-Ground, I think or vice versa with 9!

16.) This was a jet fighter, which started like a rocket with a really high climb rate. It was designed as a cheap defense against allied bombers, armed with rockets. I think it was reusable but not all parts.

19.) Not quite sure what you mean.:confused:
It could mean X-Ray machines or
the Kramer X-series.
 
1. Fieseler Fi 103

A group of 103 choirboys from Vienna who sang at such a high pitch that they shattered the windows of Allied bombers flying overhead.

2. Fritz-X

A large guy dressed in studded leather who played S&M games with French politicians in Paris in the 1930's. His constant exhortations to "Surrender!" were actually subliminal messages that were taken literally during the Blitzkrieg.

3. A-4

A bigger, better version of the A-3.

4. Mistel

A plant sprayer filled with hydrochloric acid, used by spies to kill the plants in Churchill's office and lower his morale during the Battle of Britain.

5. Bv 246 Hagelkorn

A powerful laxative shipped to Sweden in large quantities, responsible for keeping Swedish generals and ministers on the toilet when they should have been planning a declaration of war on Germany.

6. Feuerlilie

Fireworks used to spook horses in Poland, thus allowing the German panzers to win their famous victory over the Polish cavalry.

7. Hs 117 Schmetterling

A clever boy from High School 117 in Berlin who figured out how to stomp down all the Dutch tulips, paving the way for the quick takeover of the Netherlands.

8. Taifun

A German/Japanese sumo wrestler who won the World Sumo Championship in 1940. Not really a weapon, but great for publicity.

9. Kramer X-4

An experimental android programmed with a wacky, obnoxious but somehow lovable personality. The Germans planned to have him infiltrate Roosevelt's cabinet and hamper the war effort by constantly dropping by the White House with crazy suggestions, but the android was sent to America on the Hindenburg's last flight, and was destroyed in the fire.

10. R4M

Short for "Raus, raus, raus, raus, maus!" The German secret formula for ridding their bunkers of vermin.

11. Kramer X-7 Rotkäppchen

An updated version of Kramer X-4, X-7 wore a red cap ("Rotkäppchen"). This one was sent across the Atlantic on a Hamburg America steamship, but the sea mist caused short circuits that made its vacuum tubes blow out.

12. FuG 227 Flensburg

"Funky Goon 227", a bouncer from a Flensburg nightclub who denied admission to Jews by head-butting them. Hitler so admired the way this guy "used his head" that he made him a commander in the Stalingrad campaign.

13. FuG 240 Berlin

Another Funky Goon who defended Hitler's bunker during his last days in Berlin. Set up land mines to hold back Russian tanks, but perished of terminal illiteracy when he failed to heed the message "THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY".

14. FuGM 80 Freya

Code name of a Funky Goon Mistress, who danced up a storm in Nazi discos, exposing Allied agents by getting them to betray their love of "decadent" jazz.

15. Knickebein

Knickers worn by the SS stormtroopers that made all their opponents fall down laughing.

16. Ba 349 Natter

A giant flyswatter used to knock bombers from the sky. After the war, it was captured by the Soviets and used as part of the Moscow missile defense system.

17. Mauser MG 213C

A breeding program for hideous schnauzer-pit bull crossbreeds that were meant to be adopted by English aristocracy and then chew off their ankles. The program was dropped when foreign intelligence indicated that British morale would actually increase if they heard that the upper classes were being mauled by their own dogs.

18. Spanner I

A spanner that was 1/32nd of an inch too large, shipped to the RAF just before the bombing raids. This was meant to cause delay and frustration to British mechanics preparing the Spitfires for takeoff. A version sent to the US was called the "Wrench I".

19. X-Geräte

X-rated films of Hitler and Eva Braun. Used to torture concentration camp inmates. Caused all who viewed it to experience nausea, revulsion, and in some cases, brain hemmorhages.

20. Naxos

Greek island where Hitler hid after faking his suicide. He was later joined by John F. Kennedy, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Andy Kaufman, and Kurt Cobain.
 
:lol: at Jimcat

2. Fritz-X

A radio controlled bomb. Generally droped from a Do-217K, it was used extensively and sank several allied ships, including the surendering Italain battleship Roma.

20. Naxos

A submarine mounted radar detector that could detect the centermetic radar used by Allied ASW aircraft. However, it appeared too late to save the U-Boats from massacre in 1943, and I believe that it was somewhat unreliable.

Plug: both these weapons appear in my 'new' Civ 2 scenario 'The Cruel Sea 2.0' ;)
 
1. Fieseler Fi 103 - Dingbat

2. Fritz-X - Case
Also known as the FX 1400 not Kramer X-1

3. A-4 - Dingbat

4. Mistel - Dingbat

9. Kramer X-4 - Lucky

16. Ba 349 Natter - Dingbat (Lucky's answer sounds more like the Me163)

17. Mauser MG 213C - Dingbat
(after the war it inspired the American Pontiac M39 & British Aden)

20. Naxos - Case


WHAT'S LEFT

5. Bv 246 Hagelkorn - Lucky need more details

6. Feuerlilie - Lucky need more details

7. Hs 117 Schmetterling - Lucky need more details

8. Taifun - Dingbat, need more details

10. R4M

11. Kramer X-7 Rotkäppchen

12. FuG 227 Flensburg

13. FuG 240 Berlin

14. FuGM 80 Freya

15. Knickebein

18. Spanner I

19. X-Geräte
 
2.) Sorry to disagree with you, but the official designation for the Fritz-X WAS Kramer X-1!
It is a radio controlled glide bomb especially used by the DO-217K and K2 as written by case. I could look it up if you insist but I`m absolutely sure! It was the first bomb of the Kramer X-series.

5.) A glide bomb for high altude bombing runs, which could be launched from pretty far away (several kilometers!).
It was guidable and carried by level bombers, like the JU-88 or HE-111.

6.) The Feuerlilie was constructed somewhere near Berlin. It was a guidable air defense rocket.
Also shaped somehow like a jetplane it started off a ramp.

7.) The Henschel HS-117 "Schmetterling" was also a guidable air defense rocket but I think it had 2 rocket engines!
Both AD-rockets were guided by radio transmissions!

11.) As I already wrote, it was an air-ground-rocket for attacking tanks.

16.) My description should be pretty correct, a jet fighter propelled by a rocket.
The Bachem BA-349 "Natter" started like a rocket (vertical) with a high climb rate equal to that of jetfighters of the 1970's. I remember this because the first test flight was also the first manned rocket launch in history!

12.13.14.) I remember the FuG's now, they were radio signal devices, for example used for the guidance of rockets.


I'm pretty sure about most of these answers, as it is one of my favorite topics.:D (I'm also from Germany :lol: )
I could look some of the facts up if you want, but I already researched a lot on these topics, because I had to do a history essay in school 3 years ago. (I still have part of my copies on that topic somewhere).
 
Originally posted by Lucky
2.) Sorry to disagree with you, but the official designation for the Fritz-X WAS Kramer X-1!
It is a radio controlled glide bomb especially used by the DO-217K and K2 as written by case. I could look it up if you insist but I`m absolutely sure! It was the first bomb of the Kramer X-series.
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see here

http://www.merriam-press.com/m_053_x1.html

Max Kramer's involvement is mentioned somewhere in the middle. Whether it was the official designation or something added later by western analysts is not important.

'some kind of bomb' was definitely not a sufficient answer.

Originally posted by Lucky

16.) My description should be pretty correct, a jet fighter propelled by a rocket.
The Bachem BA-349 "Natter" started like a rocket (vertical) with a high climb rate equal to that of jetfighters of the 1970's. I remember this because the first test flight was also the first manned rocket launch in history!

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your exact choice of word originally was "This was a jet fighter, which started like a rocket" which is different from propelled by a rocket. Actually neither was correct because it was not a jet fighter. It had no jet engines. It was a rocket powered aircraft and after firing its own (smaller) rockets on the up leg, it was supposed ram itself into a bomber while the pilot ejected (since there was no way to land it).

I only gave it to dingbat because he answered first, the ME 163 reference was just an unrelated observation.

Originally posted by Lucky
As I already wrote, it was an air-ground-rocket for attacking tanks.
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No it wasn't.

Also, you were right the first time round FUGs are radars. Just need to know whats so special about the ones mentioned.
 
I´m not fighting for any correct answers here.;)
You know, I don´t get points for them anyway. :rolleyes:

I just wanted to clear up some facts, which you obviously don´t have absolutely right.

Anyway I´m back home now, so I can look it up again. Maybe I´ll even find some links for you to view yourself.

Back in a minute or two.:lol:
 
1. Fieseler Fi 103 - Dingbat

2. Fritz-X - Case

3. A-4 - Dingbat

4. Mistel - Dingbat

5. Bv 246 Hagelkorn - Lucky

6. Feuerlilie - Lucky

7. Hs 117 Schmetterling - Lucky

9. Kramer X-4 - Lucky

16. Ba 349 Natter - Dingbat

17. Mauser MG 213C - Dingbat

20. Naxos - Case


WHAT'S LEFT



8. Taifun - Dingbat, need more details

10. R4M

11. Kramer X-7 Rotkäppchen

12. FuG 227 Flensburg

13. FuG 240 Berlin

14. FuGM 80 Freya

15. Knickebein

18. Spanner I

19. X-Geräte
 
Wow, there seems to be great interest in this topic on the net.
I´ve looked the discussed projects up in my book and on the net and found several good pages!:)

2.) The official designation of the "Fritz-X" was PC 1400X, as it was developed from the armor-piercing bomb PC 1400 "Fritz".
The name of the project though was indeed Kramer X-1 or Kramer "Fritz-X".
Later this description was more commonly used as Dr. Kramer developed his entire X-series.
Fritz-X and Kramer-X series

11.) I must insist that the Kramer X-7 was an air-ground-rocket with an armor piercing warhead.
It was the first anti-tank guided missile in history.
Max Kramer designed it first as another air-combat missile, later it was decided to use it as a ground-combat rocket but eventually it was constructed as an anti-tank air-ground missile.
It was tested as such but was never used in combat, except when retreating ground troops discovered them and used them somehow.:p
Kramer X-7 and see above!

16.) I´m sorry if my writing wasn´t absolutely exact. I just used jet fighter as a synonym for fighters without a propeller.:o
It was a rocket:))) fighter, started vertical, attacked with its smaller rockets and then it seperated the cockpit together with the back part of the plane and the rocket-engine. The remaining part of the plane didn´t have any engine to ram itself into something, so it was highly unlikely to happen this way.
Bachem BA-349 "Natter" 1 and Bachem BA-349 "Natter" 2
 
Now about those FuG´s... let me think a minute...
Well, the acronym means Funkgeraete or radio transmitters!:D
But what was the special thing about them?
:confused:
Hmm...
...
...
AHA, :enlighten
I think Berlin and Flensburg were target finders for night missions.

12.) The FuG-227 was probably just a passive radar targeting device for night.

13.) And the FuG-240 should be an active radar targeting device for night missions.

...

14.) And I somehow remember something about the Freya together with air defense.
So the FuGM-80 would be a ground based radar for guiding the flak fire.
But I remember another acronym for the Freya, something like FuSE-80, I´ll look it up!:scan:

EDIT: I´ve found a reference for the Freya:
FuSE-80 "Freya-Fahrstuhl"
Maybe a further development was called FuGM.
But this isn´t really important, is it?:crazyeyes
BtW, this page I found seems really cool and well researched, although it´s only available in German. :p
LuftArchiv.de or Unsere-Luftwaffe.de
 
Close enough

the Kramer X-7's call to fame was that it was the first guided long range infantry based anti-tank rocket system. It eventually led to several ATGW systems like the Malutka Sagger which appeared in 1961.

FuG 227 Flensburg
The Flensburg was a passive homing device, tracking the allied Monica tail-warning radar sets. Antennea were fitted to the outer wing panels, projecting from the leading edges.

Its contribution was that it forced the Allies to stop using their tail-warning radar sets.

FuG 240 Berlin
Centimetre-wave airborne radar. Berlin used a wavelength of 10cm and was based on captured examples of the British cavity magnetron. The parabolic dish antenna was installed inside a streamlined nose cover of the JU88G.

This was the first german airborne radar that did not require complicated nose antenna arrangements.


FuGM 80 Freya
This was a long-range ground radar. It is little known that the Germans had operational radar in the beginning of the war, and used it effectively against British bomber raids.

The Allies completely did not know that the Germans had long range ground based radar and paid dearly for this mistake in the early days.
 
He, he, :p

while searching for resources to emphasize my opinion on the X-7 and the Freya it seems that I found your web resource for this quiz.:lol: :scan: :lol:

Nice page but with a lack of real details on this matter. You should consider visiting more sites, btw. anybody should if he is interested ;), as the facts differ a little from site to site. For example the Freya acronym!

And if this quiz is over you could post an overview of the link(s), maybe even with the links I mentioned for all German reading visitors.
:goodjob:

P.S.: And I really didn´t look up any answers before! Just went on searching when the small discussion started.:cool:
Technical (military) history is one of my greatest hobbies after all!

EDIT: Hmm, what´s left?:confused:
8., 10., 15., 18., 19.
Don´t remember much about these.:o

10.) The R4M sounds like another missile/rocket. We didn´t have an unguided missile yet, so maybe it is one?!

19.) And if the X-Geraete aren´t x-ray machines then maybe it has something to do with targeting devices.
You know, like the crosshair x you use to aim you gun. Or maybe something like a tracking device using the triangulation method, x for the different directions?!

That´s about all I can remember.:)
 
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