Hajile

Hajile was one of a number of highly experimental projects, including the Hedgehog and Panjandrum, that were developed by the British Admiralty's Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) during the final years of World War II. The project was initiated by a request from the Army for a method of dropping heavy equipment and vehicles from aircraft at high speed, retaining the materiel's terminal velocity for as long as possible in order to minimise drift and damage from anti-aircraft batteries. It was further required that the materiel suffer only minimal or no damage from landing, and once dropped be ready to deploy within minutes.
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