Obviously it didn’t pan out , but I wonder if the basic design is valid? (We’ll ignore the ‘trailing cables to catch bombers', which would make for a briefly interesting Nantucket Sleigh Ride for the unfortunate defenders…)

Bruce Johnson

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I think it was the British who developed a rocket with a cable connected to it that was fired when a German plane would show up to strafe an airfield. They'd fire a barrage of rockets, essentially creating a curtain of cables that the plane had to fly through. I don't recall if it was successful or not.

Kurt Feltenberger

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You've jogged my memory & now I also recall that the germans tried the "rocket trailing a cable" gambit also.

I believe it also was fired from a position above the bomber formation, out of range of their defensive guns.

Also, in the later stages of the War in the Pacific, the japanese navy equipped their  larger ships with a very high number of large-caliber rocket launchers in an attempt to augment their AA defenses.

That didn't work either.

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