"Dart Bomber"

In the later years of World War II, Nazi Germany searched desperately for a weapon which would turn the tide back in their favour. The many brainstormings produced a lot of ideas which we easily scoff at (not that the Allies were immune from the bizarre in their quest to find something useful) and one such idea has been laughed at in the media this week. In 1945 Allied soldiers at the Reich Chancellery building seized pencil sketches for a new type of bombing system, one where a 1000kg bomb was guided to it’s target by a small glider perched atop, which would then escape from the explosion by quickly inflating a balloon and moving upwards. It sounds, and probably was, a design born from a mixture of desperation and imagination. The sketches are going to auction with an estimate of £3000 (roughly $4500).