Philip the Arab
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During WW2 Nazi Germany developed Vengeance weapons against the British for their role in the bombing of Germany. The three weapons are the V-1, the V-2, and the V-3. They were all important in the develop of cruise missiles for the V-1 and ballistic missiles in the V-2. I will be talking about the V-1 today which used a pulsejet for power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsejet
Diagram of a pulsejet
A pulsejet engine (or pulse jet) is a type of jet engine in which combustion occurs in pulses. A pulsejet engine can be made with few or no moving parts, and is capable of running statically (i.e. it does not need to have air forced into its inlet typically by forward motion).
Pulsejet engines are a lightweight form of jet propulsion, but usually have a poor compression ratio, and hence give a low specific impulse.
One notable line of research of pulsejet engines includes the pulse detonation engine which involves repeated detonations in the engine, and which can potentially give high compression and reasonably good efficiency.
Pulsejets are not used anymore because of their noise which can reach 140 Decibels which is as loud as an aircraft carrier deck. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb only cost about 8000 us dollars in today money which is incredibly low and can deliver 2000 pounds of tnt but was only useful for large targets like cities. Battlefield 5 illustrates how the V-1 would have felt like in real life although the game is a bit unrealistic in terms of the accuracy and how the V-1 missile would have been useful but I have a video which shows the V-1 in the game right here but beware of the jump scare at 1:09
I was wondering what you guys thought about using a pulsejet in modern day cruise missiles if the noise could be decreased and if they accuracy was improved via GPS,INS, TERCOM, DSMAC, active radar homing and the altitude decreased to about 100-150 feet above ground level and speed which in the V-1 was about 400 increased by about 2-3 hundred mph. You can agree or disagree with me but I'm just looking at new military technology.
I have some designs for WW2 pulsejets used in the V-1 on this website. pulse-jets.com/
Diagram of a pulsejet
A pulsejet engine (or pulse jet) is a type of jet engine in which combustion occurs in pulses. A pulsejet engine can be made with few or no moving parts, and is capable of running statically (i.e. it does not need to have air forced into its inlet typically by forward motion).
Pulsejet engines are a lightweight form of jet propulsion, but usually have a poor compression ratio, and hence give a low specific impulse.
One notable line of research of pulsejet engines includes the pulse detonation engine which involves repeated detonations in the engine, and which can potentially give high compression and reasonably good efficiency.
Pulsejets are not used anymore because of their noise which can reach 140 Decibels which is as loud as an aircraft carrier deck. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb only cost about 8000 us dollars in today money which is incredibly low and can deliver 2000 pounds of tnt but was only useful for large targets like cities. Battlefield 5 illustrates how the V-1 would have felt like in real life although the game is a bit unrealistic in terms of the accuracy and how the V-1 missile would have been useful but I have a video which shows the V-1 in the game right here but beware of the jump scare at 1:09
I have some designs for WW2 pulsejets used in the V-1 on this website. pulse-jets.com/
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