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Nope :-)

 

Makes it even more confusing if anything

 

A decoy? Maybe to attract heat seeking missiles?

Nope

Jeessss...are you making these up!!!

Nope, I'm not that clever. Well does this help or confuse?

with an internal temperature of 3500 deg F producing 1200 psi at the jets, dose it run on steam?

Nope

Assume it is not controled via radio wave as it seem too early looking at the drawing :dunno:

Are you sure about that?

Would it be a Kugelblitz ("round lightning") ? An explosive gas weapon using a 50:50 mix of butane and propane, with gyroscopic stabilisation, I believe designed to intercept bombers. Possibly with remote control and was being developed at late part of WW2 by the Germans, in Italy.

 

Nope not a Kugelblitz, although that sounds an intriguing device.

A guided bomb (dropped as opposed to fired)

 

Nope not a dropped guided bomb.

How about a device for clearing barbed wire????

Nope

Does this help?

Very early version of a drone?

 

Nope

Something to do with the theory of Hyperspace drive

 

Nope

Looks like one of Leonardo da Vinci's gadgets :-D

 

It does but nope

Is it some sort of weapon disabling/detonating device?

Nope

Spy type thing?

Nope

Looks like something out of Jules Verne!!

I see what you mean but nope.

Was there some German/Japanese collaboration at some point towards the end of WW2?

Nope

Is it used to propel something, ie some sort of fuel cell?

I assume it flies in air...or is it in space or underwater?

Air

 

Anything nuclear involved?

Nope

Smoke discharger projectile

 

A smoke screen round that could be fired at the enemy so they couldn't see each other or you but you can manuever unmolested

 

Nope, as I said its about 2ft diameter.

That's not a moon! It's a space station!

Bit small

Is it significant that there are two,

just to show both sides?

Would they be deployed alone, in groups,

from a host?

Laser guided?

Clive, give us a clue. Did this thing ever exist or is it someones fantasy idea?

 

It existed but was not adopted. In fact two countries worked on similar ideas. This one had maximum speed of 500 feet per second, with an internal temperature of 3500 deg F producing 1200 psi at the jets allowing a turn of 400 deg per sec. I can't seem to find dimensions, but on the basis of certain structures its diameter would be about 2 ft.

So what more can I say? I've really given it away now :whistle:

The original design for the spheres in Phantasm?

 

Had to google for that one, but nope.

Some sort of mine????

 

Nope

Is it naval?

 

Nope

Smoke canister, possibly launched from a mortar?

 

Nope

A ball, coated internally with matt black paint...effectively a perfect black body ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body - absorbs radiation, but refects or radiates none).

So, energy/heat builds up, caused by light entering it, and then used to power it?

 

Um nope

Remote control football so we could beat Germany in the penalties :dunno:

 

Nope

Cluster bomblet :dunno:

Nope

A flying robot of a sci fi film :?

 

Or some type of sea mine?

Nope

Nope

An early method of delivering chemical weapons, possibly by firing from a mortar?

Nope

One of the first designs for a "flying saucer" attack machine for the military

No its spherical, but it is a weapon.