Scott Lowther wrote:

P.S. Sadly, Mark Wade is continuing the mythology that the A-9/A-10 ICBM
was to be manned. Bah!



It would be interesting to know how they intended to get it within a
hundred miles of either New York City or Washington D.C. with their
then-current guidance technology, particularly given the effect of winds
on the A9's gliding descent; the only thing I could come up with is that
an agent was supposed to put some sort of homing beacon at the target
for the missile to seek out; or two U-boats were supposed to surface at
night and transmit coded and crossed radio beams, ala theground-based
system used by the German Luftwaffe against the British...the A9 would
glide down one of the beams under automatic control till it was crossed
by the other- then dive onto the target.

Pat