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Heddy Lamar and Radio Controlled Torpedoes
Posted by: ThomasHorton ()
Date: July 13, 2009 01:10PM

Heddy Lamar, Not just a pretty face. :)

Heddy Lamar co-owned the patent (2,292,387) for a frequency hopping radio system to be used in Radio Controlled Torpedoes.

While this technology was not implemented until 1962, historical references about Lamar's work refer to radio controlled torpedoes currently (1942) being used by the US Navy.

The word "used" may be misused in place of "being developed". But in any case, I have not heard of any development during WWII of a radio controlled Torpedo.

Does anyone have any references for this work? I know that we, and other countries, were working on wire guided torpedoes but I have not read anything about radio controlled torpedoes.

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