Hitler's "Silent Dart" 700+mph flying bomb

I'm not really sure what to make of this. Even though it's from the Daily Mail, could it be a hoax? A glider with a speed of 700mph?

www.dailymail.co.uk... k-Britain.html

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he linkie is not configured properly.

Here you go: dailymail

If the pilot had to drop the bomb and inflate a balloon at the last minute, it would be impossible to do that, because, it would take some time to inflate it and at the speed with which the glider along with the bomb is falling, the glider would not be able to slow down and reverse direction.

How would the pilot get back to Germany? Theres no propulsion device so he would be drifting through the sky. The pilot would die anyway...

It wouldn't do anything useful that a V2 didn't do already. Also, a V2 would be better since a V2 would only carry fuel and a bomb, rather than wasting valuable weight with a pilot and things to keep him alive.

Additionally, the plane that drops that thing will get shot down before it reaches a useful place to drop it off, because that little glider will probably have an awful glide ratio of something like 5:1 (probably an over estimate), meaning 5 km along, 1 down. Considering that later on in the war (ie, after June 6th, 1944) the Allies had bases in France for aircraft and long ranged fighters (P-51s escorted bombers all the way to their targets and back), not to mention near total air superiority, it just wouldn't get in range.
In terms of aerodynamics, the bomb would be better stored inside the plane to reduce drag since as it is that would be awful in terms of drag and a large moment pulling the craft down.

IMO, this looks to be either a fake, or a design made by someone deluded about aerodynamics and feasibility in a war(such as Hitler).

there were many many designs for weapons made by not only germany but all contries during ww2 , and most never made it off the drawing board - as said above , the V-2 did the same job without a pilot and was much faster on the entire flight.