Glide bomb

Japanese: 滑空爆弾 - かっくうばくだん
Glide bomb

…Germany then rushed to establish a countermeasure (ECCM), but the problem was not solved even at the end of the war. In March 1944, Germany developed and put into practical use a glide bomb guided by radio signals from an aircraft, which sank the Italian battleship Roma as it sailed toward the Allied forces, and continued to achieve success thereafter. The Allied forces received and recorded the radio signals during the bombing raids (ESM), and developed a jamming device to counter them, rendering the glide bomb ineffective. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "glide bombs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…以後ドイツはこの対策(ECCM)確立を急いだが,終戦に至るも解決はできなかった。44年3月,ドイツは航空機から指令電波誘導される滑空爆弾を開発・実用し,連合軍に向け航行中のイタリア戦艦〈ローマ〉を撃沈,その後も戦果を重ねた。連合軍はその爆撃下で指令電波を受信・記録し(ESM),これに対する電波妨害装置を完成,滑空爆弾を無効化した。…

※「滑空爆弾」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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