Talk:Holman Projector

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[edit] Number of aircraft downed?

I've seen several web sources ([1] [2] [3] [4] that largely wrote the weapon off as worse than useless with no actual aircraft ever having been shot down. I notice that some of the sources are immediate post war reports, which I would imagine contain a certain amount of "overclaiming". Can we track down more specifically the claimed shoot downs - it might be possible to match it with German loss records and with what else might have been in the area at the time. Megapixie 01:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use on land

It seems surprising to me that the weapon was not deployed to Home Guard units especially at the coast where a dual role as bird scarer and for quickly lobbing dozens of mills bombs onto beaches might have been very useful. Was it a victim of inter-service rivalry? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 13:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)