Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany (where the robot was christened "V-I," for Vergeltungswaffe or "Reprisal Weapon" No. I), Herr Goebbels got cold feet about his first delirious claims of demoralization and destruction in Britain, and ordered his radio stooges to tone down...
...weapon turned out to be just about what British military and Government leaders had predicted months before-a self-propelled "robot bomb." It has stubby wings (16 ft. across) and tiny tail surface; its only pilot is a gyrocompass control box, intended to keep it on a steady course...
Goebbels Gobble. The German reaction was equally characteristic. If the new weapon was of no use to Rommel on the beachhead, it was a godsend to Goebbels on the radio...
...them on that account. In the relatively short-ranged European theater, there is a vast amount of work to be done not only by the four-engined "mediums," but by the smaller two-engined mediums. Marauders, Mitchells and Bostons, which now become "light bombers." The B-29 is the weapon that will squeeze down the vast and once heartbreaking distances of the Pacific...
...Headlong "Bull" Halsey had forged a powerful weapon in the Solomons, had wielded it with skill, daring, many sulfurous asides (a public-relations officer had finally been assigned to clean up his bullish predictions, screen his football-field bombast). Now once again he would have a chance to forge a weapon, drive it to the heart of the Japanese empire...