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British Secret Projects - Hypersonics, Ramjets & Missiles has a couple of paragraphs on the journey's End bomb. The datils given there are pretty much as CJGibson described. To summarise:
It was designed by Lord Cherwell and Brigadier Jeffries (and originally called the Cherwell/Jefferis bomb)
It was intended to attack Japanese ships
Renamed to "Journey's End" sometime before the end of WW2
Used a TV guidance system and a single shot rocket motor to provide "final control"
Wasn't very capable and got deemed obsolete in 1947.

[QUOTE="Flame2512, post: 533786, member: 33574"] British Secret Projects - Hypersonics, Ramjets & Missiles has a couple of paragraphs on the journey's End bomb. The datils given there are pretty much as CJGibson described. To summarise: [LIST] [*]It was designed by Lord Cherwell and Brigadier Jeffries (and originally called the Cherwell/Jefferis bomb) [*]It was intended to attack Japanese ships [*]Renamed to "Journey's End" sometime before the end of WW2 [*]Used a TV guidance system and a single shot rocket motor to provide "final control" [*]Wasn't very capable and got deemed obsolete in 1947. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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