How's about these for SOW?

[ECV56_Guevara]

PAC:
"Sometimes a weapon can have effects that are secret even from the people using it. The Parachute and Cable (or PAC) was a British weapon intended to bring down German bombers. The idea was that a cable would be lifted into the air by a rocket into the path of a bomber. The bottom end of the cable carried an explosive device, and there was a parachute at the top. The parachute served two functions. Once the rocket burned out the canopy slowed the cable's fall, and if the cable caught a bomber's wing the drag from the parachute would pull the cable across the wing until the explosive made contact and detonated. (Early versions simply had a second parachute at the bottom, with no explosive. They were intended to entangle propellers. Later variations included hanging the cables from barrage balloons.) Proponents of PAC expected Nazi bombers to drop from the skies in droves. "
from: http://www.dcr.net/~stickmak/JOHT/jo...retweapons.htm

[AndyJWest]

Thanks, Guevara. I thought it was probably something of the sort. Not the sort of thing you want to run into in a Heinkel...

[KG26_Alpha]

From memory (IIRC)

Ju88 A6 He111 H3/5 had cable deflectors fitted on the nose, but the He111 H8/9/10 night bombers had full length cable deflectors from nose to wing tips so they could fly through or cut the barrage balloon cables and such.

The earlier variants gave way to lighter equipment being installed on later models like the Kuto-Nase balloon cable-cutters installed on the leading edges of the wings.

LEADING EDGE OF DORNIER WING, FITTED WITH KUTO NASE



Ju88 A6



Sorry didn't mean to hijack the thread