Talk:Fritz X

Name of the page
Shouldn't this page be called Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X? As I know the Fritz X is only a nickname for this weapon.

Anyway, I added a redirect from Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X to this page. Talamus 23:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Additional info
More information can be found at: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/fritz.html For example they say that the base of this weapon was an ordinary 1400kg bomb (PC 1400), hence the 1400 in the name.

If someone got free time for checking and wikifying... Thank you! Talamus 00:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah this article lacks alot of information. It mentions how the guidance system can be jammed, but it doesn't at all explain how the thing was guided and why this was important as (one of?) the first guided missiles in history.--Stevekl 03:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Was it a missile or was it a bomb? I thought a missile needed to be propelled at some stage of its journey, while a bomb just gets dropped.


 * It's a guided bomb (now called a PGM).  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  04:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

My ex X, Number One
Two issues.
 * "spoofing, in which the missile was given a signal sending it out of control, into a stall or spiralling dive."

Doesn't it also include simply diverting the bomb off-target?
 * "lost steam (and thus all power"

Is this necessarily true? It may be in this instance, but I've heard of cases where loss of steam didn't consequently mean loss of all ship's power, & I've a hunch it wasn't that simple, especially when she'd have had diesel auxiliaries, no?  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  04:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Glide bomb?
I am not sure that it is actually a glide bomb. 1) Its fins seem to be flat, so they are not lifting surfaces, 2) tail surfaces have got some volume, but they are too far from the center of mass and too small to provide gliding. So I believe this is a mistake. At least one source says something like that, see p. 6. RajatonRakkaus (talk) 09:36, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X
The official name of the bomb was Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X. Fritz X was just a nickname. I suggest the article should be renamed. --Lysytalk 20:17, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * That was just one of the names it had, the most common is Fritz X hence the article title. --Denniss (talk) 21:37, 18 August 2023 (UTC)