[sci.military] Photo-electric cell activated weapons

yaniv%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (ran el-Yaniv) (09/04/90)

From: ran el-Yaniv <yaniv%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

	The most effective aircraft with a photo-electric activated weapon
was the Henschel Hs 129. It had six 75mm smoothbore tubes aimed back and
down. When the Hs 129 would pass over a tank, the tubes would fire
automatically.

	Other weapons were fitted - from 20mm to 75mm cannons, machineguns
and rockets.

	The Hs 129 was used mainly over the Eastern front.

yaniv@shum.huji.ac.il