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- Azon weight "453.6".
- Azon abstract "AZON (or Azon), from \"azimuth only\", was one of the world's first guided weapons, deployed by the Allies and contemporary with the German Fritz X.Officially designated VB-1 (\"Vertical Bomb 1\"), it was invented by Major Henry J. Rand and Thomas J. O'Donnell during the latter stages of World War II as the answer to the difficult problem of destroying the narrow wooden bridges that supported much of the Burma Railway.AZON was essentially a 1,000 lb (454 kg) general-purpose bomb with a quadrilateral 4-fin style radio controlled tail fin design as part of a \"tail package\" to give the half-short ton ordnance the desired guidance capability, allowing adjustment of the vertical trajectory in the yaw axis, giving the Azon unit a lateral steering capability (meaning it could only steer left and right, and could not alter its pitch or rate of fall). This lack of any pitch control meant that the bombardier still had to accurately release it with a bombsight to ensure it could not fall short of or beyond the target. The \"tail package\" bolted onto the standard bomb warhead, in place of the usual sheet-metal fixed fins; this concept was an early iteration of a now common method of making modern guided bombs (such as the JDAM, the Paveway family, the KAB-500L, etc): making the guidance and control units as separate pieces that attach to the tail and/or nose of a standard \"iron bomb\", making it into a guided weapon There were gyroscopes mounted in the bomb's added tail package that made it an Azon unit, to autonomously stabilize it in the roll axis via operating a pair of ailerons, and a radio control system to operate the proportional-control rudders, to directly control the bomb's direction of lateral aim, with the antennas for the tail-mounted receiver unit built into the diagonal support struts of the tail surface assembly. The bomb's receiver and control system were powered by a battery which had around three minutes of battery life. The entire setup in the added \"tail package\" was sufficient to guide the weapon from a 5,000-foot (1,500 m) drop height to the target. Situated on the tail of the bomb was a 600,000-candela flare which also left behind a noticeable smoke trail, to enable the bombardier to observe and control it from the control aircraft. When used in combat, it was dropped from a modified Consolidated B-24 Liberator, with earlier development test drops of the Azon in the United States sometimes using the B-17 Flying Fortress as the platform. Some ten crews, of the 458th Bombardment Group, based at RAF Horsham St Faith, were trained to drop the device for use in the European theater.The 493rd Bomb Squadron also dropped Azon bombs in Burma in early 1945 from similarly-modified B-24s, based at Pandaveswar Airfield, India, with considerable success, fulfilling the designers' original purpose for the ordnance.".
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- Azon type Guided_bomb.
- Azon usedInWar World_War_II.
- Azon weight "453600.0".
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- Azon wikiPageLength "8730".
- Azon wikiPageOutDegree "50".
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink 458th_Air_Expeditionary_Group.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink 93d_Air_Refueling_Squadron.
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Allies_of_World_War_II.
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Bat_(guided_bomb).
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Battery_(electricity).
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Burma_Railway.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Candela.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Guided_bombs_of_the_United_States.
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Eighth_Air_Force.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink European_theatre_of_World_War_II.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink File:Azon_-_the_worlds_first_smart_bomb.jpg.
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Guided_bomb.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Gyroscope.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Ham,_Somme.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Hemmingstedt.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink KAB-500L.
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- Azon wikiPageWikiLink List_of_anti-ship_missiles.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Manual_command_to_line_of_sight.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Melun.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Moerdijk.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Aphrodite.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Pandaveswar_Airfield.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Paveway.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Precision-guided_munition.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink RAF_Horsham_St_Faith.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Radio_control.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Ravenstein,_Netherlands.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink River_Somme.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Saumur.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Unguided_bomb.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Vertical_stabilizer.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink Étaples.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLink File:VB-1_Azon_2_(ORDATA).jpg.
- Azon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Azon".
- Azon wikiPageWikiLinkText "VB-1 Azon".
- Azon caption "AZON, the first smart bomb developed by the United States.".
- Azon guidance "MCLOS radio control system".
- Azon isExplosive "yes".
- Azon isMissile "yes".
- Azon isRanged "yes".
- Azon name "AZON".
- Azon origin "United States".
- Azon service "1944".
- Azon type Guided_bomb.
- Azon usedBy "United States".
- Azon wars World_War_II.
- Azon weight "VB-1:".
- Azon weight "VB-2:".
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- Azon subject Category:Guided_bombs_of_the_United_States.
- Azon subject Category:World_War_II_aerial_bombs_of_the_United_States.
- Azon subject Category:World_War_II_weapons_of_the_United_States.
- Azon hypernym World.
- Azon type Agent.
- Azon type Device.
- Azon type Weapon.
- Azon type Redirect.
- Azon type Product.
- Azon type Thing.
- Azon type Q728.
- Azon comment "AZON (or Azon), from \"azimuth only\", was one of the world's first guided weapons, deployed by the Allies and contemporary with the German Fritz X.Officially designated VB-1 (\"Vertical Bomb 1\"), it was invented by Major Henry J. Rand and Thomas J.".