Ke-Go
Sign in to saveKe-Go was one of the first guided weapons, developed by the Imperial Japanese Army Ordnance Board. The Ke-Go was a free falling, infra-red guided, gyro-stabilized missile, intended to be dropped from airplanes onto shipping targets. The missile had eight wings in two cross-configurations, one set fore and one set aft. Output from the heat-seeking head was amplified to provide guidance control to flaps on the four forward wings. The main body was to hold an explosive charge behind the heat-seeking head.
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Ke-Go was one of the first guided weapons, developed by the Imperial Japanese Army Ordnance Board. The Ke-Go was a free falling, infra-red guided, gyro-stabilized missile, intended to be dropped from airplanes onto shipping targets. The missile had eight wings in two cross-configurations, one set fore and one set aft. Output from the heat-seeking head was amplified to provide guidance control to flaps on the four forward wings. The main body was to hold an explosive charge behind the heat-seeking head.
==Development== Tokyo Shibaura Denki Company began development of infrared seekers around March 1944, and Hideo Itokawa of the Nakajima Aircraft Company was tasked with the aerodynamic design of the missile.
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