history people: Question-

[Jesse_James]

Did the Gloster Meteor ever intercept V2s? or was it just V1s?

If so, does anyone have a source?

No wiki please. :)


Thank you

[zkraut]

I believe V1s. V2s were rare I believe.


Not an expert on air power but thats what I think.

[Rick]

I believe it was neither. The V1 was slow enough that your basic Spitfire or Hawker Hurricane could catch it. The V2 no one could stop as it was decending at supersonic speeds.

[Sharpe]

V1's were like modern cruise missiles. They could be intercepted. V2's were similar to modern ICBMs. They could not be intercepted.

[RommeL BombeR 77]

But the glosters DID shoot down 1v1s, I saw it on teh history channel :D

[carl_brisgamer]

From the following website:

http://www.vectorsite.net/avmeteor.html#m3

"The rest of the Meteor Is entered RAF squadron service beginning in July 1944 with RAF Number 616 Squadron. The Meteor I was no faster than contemporary piston-engine fighters at high altitude, but unlike them it retained its speed at low altitude, and so was pressed into service to intercept German V-1 flying bombs that summer.

Flying Officer "Dixie" Dean scored the Meteor's first kill, against such a missile, on 4 August 1944. Dean, his cannons having jammed, maneuvered his aircraft under the wing of the flying bomb to throw it off guidance and into the ground. Another Meteor pilot, Flying Officer J. Roger, shot down another flying bomb later that day with his cannons, and a total of 13 kills were scored with cannon fire into August, when the flying-bomb attacks ceased. This was a very small quantity compared to the total of thousands of flying bomb attacks and kills, but the Meteors served a useful propaganda purpose."

Hope this is what you were after.

Cheers,

Carl Rohweder

[hornet69]

Did the Gloster Meteor ever intercept V2s? or was it just V1s?

If so, does anyone have a source?

No wiki please. :)


Thank you
g and you told me you went to oxford for your doctors degree ,did you not learn any English history there.
at least at my university Berlin polytechnic they thought us proper history lesson's

[RommeL BombeR 77]

g and you told me you went to oxford for your doctors degree ,did you not learn any English history there.
at least at my university Berlin polytechnic they thought us proper history lesson's

s.n.o.b :D

[Photoner Hawkwind]

g and you told me you went to oxford for your doctors degree ,did you not learn any English history there.
at least at my university Berlin polytechnic they thought us proper history lesson's

LOL!!! Did they teach you any english there?;) Just Kidding!:D