German Panic Fighters- Emergency Fighter Programs 1944-1945

[Justo Miranda]

German Panic Fighters

Emergency Fighter Programs 1944-1945

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During the second half of 1943, the arrival of numerous Mustang and Thunderbolt US fighters to the British bases multiplied by four the number of airplanes of the Eighth Air Force, altering the course of the war over the Reich in favour of the Allies. In a few weeks, the Jagdwaffe began to experience increasing losses: 21 percent of its fighters in November and 23 percent in December. By early April 1944 the US fighter pilots were ordered to pursuit the German interceptors to their bases with groups of more than fifty aircraft and attack them while refuelling.

As France in 1939, the USSR in 1941 and Australia in 1942, the Germans began to consider the mass construction of a ‘panic fighter’ that would stop the advance of the invader.

Between May of 1943 and March 1945 the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe issued eighteen specifications demanding different types of fighters to regain air superiority over the Reich.

The aeronautical industry responded with the 145 projects described in this book in 228 pages of drawings and 63,000 words.



CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

Hochgeschwindigkeits program

Messerschmitt Me 262 HG I (April 18, 1944)

Messerschmitt Me 262 HG II (July 28, 1944)

Messerschmitt Me 262 HG III Entwurf I (December 22, 1944)

Messerschmitt Me 262 HG III Entwurf II (February 12, 1945)

Junkers Jumo 004 C turbojet

Me 262 Interzeptor and Me 262 Heimatschützer programs



Interzeptor I (July 7, 1943)



Interzeptor II (July 6, 1943)



Interzeptor III (July 21, 1943)



Heimatschützer I (February 26, 1945)



Heimatschützer II (March 28, 1945)



Heimatschützer III



Heimatschützer IV (January 11, 1945)



BMW 003 TLR mixed power engine



Messerschmitt emergency fighters with Jumo 004 turbojet

Messerschmitt Bf 109 1-TL Jäger (January 1943)

Messerschmitt/Lippisch P.20 (April 1943)

Messerschmitt P.1092 Series (May 1943)

Messerschmitt Me 328 C (October 1943)



Messerschmitt P.1095 Series (October 1943)



Lippisch P.15 Diana (April 4, 1945)



Jägernotprogramm

Arado E 581-4 with HeS 011 (December 19, 1944)

Blohm und Voss P.209-02 (September 29, 1944)

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 14, 1944)

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 21, 1944)

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 27, 1944)

Focke-Wulf 1-TL Jäger Projekt V (February 1944)

Focke-Wulf 1-TL Jäger Projekt VI-Flitzer III (July 20, 1944)

Heinkel P.1073.01-4 Schneller Strahljäger (July 10, 1944)

Heinkel P.1073 (October 23, 1944)

Heinkel P.1078 C (December 15, 1944)



Henschel P.135 (December 1944)



Messerschmitt P.1101 Series (August 1944)



Heinkel He S 011 A-0 turbojet



Hochleistungsjäger



Focke-Wulf P.011.001 (January 1944)



Focke-Wulf 1-TL Jäger Projekt VI- Flitzer I (February 1944)



Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Ra-1 (December 1944)

Heinkel He 162.01-42 (March 12, 1945)

Horten Ho XIIIb Überschalljäger (March 1945)

HeS 011R combined turbojet and rocket engine



Volksjäger competition



Arado E 580 (September 12, 1944)

Arado E 581-4 with BMW 003 E (September 14, 1944)

Blohm und Voss P.209.01



Blohm und Voss P.210.01 (September 12, 1944)



Blohm und Voss P.211.01 (September 14, 1944)



Blohm und Voss P.211.02 (September 29, 1944)



Dornier Kleinstjäger

Focke-Wulf Volksflitzer (September 8, 1944)



Focke-Wulf Volksflugzeug (September 20, 1944)



Heinkel P.1073.01-18 Strahljäger (September 11, 1944)

Heinkel P.1073.01-20 Kleinstjäger (September 25, 1944)

Heinkel He 162 (October 4, 1944)

Heinkel He 162 V1 Volksjäger (December 10, 1944)

Horten Volksjäger I&II

Junkers EF 123/124 (September 14, 1944)

BMW 003 turbojet

Reserve fighter competition



Arado E 581-5 (January 12, 1945)



Blohm und Voss P.212.02-02 (December 19, 1944)



Blohm und Voss P.212.03-01 (January 11, 1945)



Blohm und Voss P.212.03-02 (February 1945)



Blohm und Voss P.217 (February 5, 1945)

Focke-Wulf Ta 183 B - P.011.039a (February 18, 1945)

Heinkel He 162 “D” (September 8, 1944)

Heinkel He 162 “C” (October 23, 1944)

Junkers EF 128 (February 15, 1945)



Messerschmitt P.1106 (December 14, 1944)

Messerschmitt P.1106 (January 12, 1945)

Messerschmitt P.1110 (January 1945)



Messerschmitt P.1110 (February 27, 1945)



Messerschmitt P.1111



Messerschmitt P.1112/S2 (March 3, 1945)



Messerschmitt/Lippisch P.15 (March 3, 1945)

Pulsejets

Schmidt SR 500

Projects with SR 500

Horten Ho Vc Leichtes Kampfflugzeug (March 19, 1942)

Argus As 014

Messerschmitt Me 328 A-1 (December 15, 1942)

Messerschmitt Me 328 A-2 (December 15, 1942)

Messerschmitt Me 328 A-3 (December 15, 1942)

Miniaturjäger program

Blohm und Voss P.213.01-01

Pulsejet fighters with Argus As 014

Argus fighter



Heinkel He-162 A-10



Henschel P 90 Ente



Argus As 044

Pulsejet fighters with Argus As 044

Heinkel P.1077 Romeo I

Heinkel He-162 A-11



Hütter Fagott Interceptor



Schlachtflugzeug program

Argus-Junkers Schlachtflugzeug

Heinkel P.1077 Romeo II

Hütter Schlachtflugzeug

Junkers EF.126 Lilli

Other Pulsejets

DFS Eber Entwurf III

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf III

The Gleitjäger concept

Blohm und Voss P. 186

Blohm und Voss BV 40

Verbrauchsflugzeug competition



DFS Eber Entwurf II



DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf II



Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust

Solid-propellant rockets

Bordjäger concept

Arado E 381-01

Arado E 381-02

Arado E 381-03

Blohm und Voss BV 40 (September 1944)

Messerschmitt P.1103 (September 12, 1944)



Bi-propellants rocket-engines



Rammschussjäger specification

Bachem rocket fighter (16.7.44)

Bachem BP-20 Berak I



DFS Eber Entwurf I



DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf I



Focke-Wulf Rammjäger

Gotha P.54/ I and P.54/ II

Gotha P.56 and P.57

Lippisch Rammer

Messerschmitt P.1103 (July 6, 1944)

Stöckel Rammschussjäger Entwurf I

Stöckel Rammschussjäger Entwurf II

Stöckel Rammschussjäger Entwurf III

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf I

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf II

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf III

Strahlrohrjäger concept

Focke-Wulf Ta 283

Focke-Wulf Super Lorin

Heinkel P.1080-01

Lippisch Delta VI (12-4-1944)

Lippisch P.12 Entwurf I

Lippisch P.12 Mock-up

Lippisch P.12 Entwurf II

Lippisch P.12 Entwurf III

Lippisch P.12 Entwurf IV

Lippisch P.12/13 (May 1944)

Lippisch P.13a Entwurf I

Lippisch P.13a Entwurf II

Lippisch P.13a Entwurf III

Lippisch P.13b

Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a with Sänger ramjets

Messerschmitt P.1101L

Skoda-Kauba P.14-01 and P.14-02

Objektschutzjäger program

Bachem Natter Series

Focke-Wulf Volksjäger

Heinkel P.1068 and P.1077 Julia I & II

Ejector Seats

Henschel P.136

Junkers EF.127.01 Walli

Junkers EF.127.02 Elli

Messerschmitt Me 163 C

Messerschmitt Me 163 D



Junkers Ju 248 V1/Me 263 A-1



Messerschmitt P.1103 b (July 6, 1944)



Messerschmitt Me P.1104 Entwurf XVIII-118 (September 22, 1944)



Messerschmitt Me P.1104-S53 Entwurf XVIII-125 (August 10, 1944)



Messerschmitt P.1106 R



Senkrechstarter Jagdflugzeug concept

Heinkel Lerche I and II

Focke Rochen

Heinkel Wespe

Daimler-Benz PTL 021 turboprop

Doblhoff WNF 432

Flakmine V7

Senkrechstarter Jagdflugzeug Entwurf I

Senkrechstarter Jagdflugzeug Entwurf II

Focke-Wulf Triebflügeljäger

 

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Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 14, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 21, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 27, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.02-02 (December 19, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.03-01 (January 11, 1945)
Blohm und Voss P.212.03-02 (February 1945)

There are many versions!

 

[Justo Miranda]

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 14, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 21, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 27, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.02-02 (December 19, 1944)
Blohm und Voss P.212.03-01 (January 11, 1945)
Blohm und Voss P.212.03-02 (February 1945)

There are many versions!

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01​

The most criticized point of the Blohm und Voss P.209.01 proposal was the absence of a tailfin that was considered the cause of the crash suffered by the flying wing prototype Horten Ho 229 V2 on February 18, 1944.

In November 1944 the Dr. Richard Vogt designed the Blohm und Voss P.212, with important modifications to reduce the drag coefficient.

The new project was a highly unusual semi-tailless fighter fitted with scissors-tail and short fuselage. The outboard elevator surfaces also served simultaneously as ailerons and allowed the landing flaps to extend across a greater part of the wingspan.

The wingtips were drooped downwards with 30-degrees of anhedral angle, a commonly used solution to improve longitudinal stability.

The ‘bat wing’ also improved lift during take-off and landing operations and resulted in a higher permissible wing-loading.

It was expected that the minimum wing surface and low-weight configuration would allow to reach high speeds.

The new fighter would be built with 23 per cent wood/plywood, 58 per cent steel, 13 percent duralumin, 6 per cent plastics.

It was designed in three configurations: P.212.02-01 (November 14, 1944), P.212.01-01 (November 21, 1944) and P.212.02-01 (November 27, 1944).

The first of these airframes was basically a modified P.209.01 with 45-degrees swept wing and a third ventral gun installed in an asymmetrical position, so as not to interfere with the retraction system of the nose leg. But, according to the Technisches Amt the asymmetrical recoil when firing the cannon would cause snaking in such a short-fuselage aircraft without tailfin and the proposal was rejected.

In the November 21 version the asymmetrical design was modified by lengthening the nose to accommodate the three guns, reducing the wing swept to 34-degrees and increasing the wingspan to achieve a more longitudinally stable aircraft.

The November 27 version would be the fastest of the three, it was equipped with a newly designed square air-intake (inspired by the Heinkel P.1078 one), 45-degrees swept wing, shortened wingspan, and fixed dorsal fin without rudder.

In December 19454, Technisches Amt considered that the aerodynamic solutions proposed by Richard Vogt were too radical and the P.212 project was cancelled.

Blohm und Voss P.212.01-01 (November 21, 1944) technical data

Wings: built of wood/plywood with 34-degrees rear swept, housing the fuel tanks, flaps, elevators, ailerons, and tailfins with wingtips drooped downwards with 30-degrees of anhedral angle. Aspect ratio: 4.56: 1. Fuselage: built of steel and light alloy housing the undercarriage members, the cockpit and the engine. Armament: three fuselage mounted MK 108/30 cannons. Engine: one HeS 011 A-0 turbojet rated at 1,300 kg static thrust. Wingspan: 10.58 m. Length: 7.56 m. Height: 2.62 m. Wing area: 14 sq. m. Max weight: 4,000 kg. Max speed: 950 km/h. Service ceiling: 12,000 m.

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 14, 1944) technical data

Wings: built of wood/plywood with 45-degrees rear swept, housing the fuel tanks, flaps, elevators, ailerons, and tailfins with wingtips drooped downwards with 30 degrees of anhedral angle. Aspect ratio: 4.56: 1. Fuselage: built of steel and light alloy housing the undercarriage members, the cockpit and the engine. Armament: three fuselage mounted MK 108/30 cannons. Engine: one He S 011 A-0 turbojet rated at 1,300 kg static thrust. Wingspan: 9.95 m. Length: 6.85 m. Height: 2.7 m. Wing area: 14 sq. m. Max weight: 4,050 kg. Max speed: 1,030 km/h. Range: 1,150 km.

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-01 (November 27, 1944) technical data

Wings: built of wood/plywood with 45-degrees rear swept, housing the fuel tanks, flaps, elevators, ailerons and tailfins with wingtips drooped downwards with 30-degrees of anhedral angle. Aspect ratio: 4.56: 1. Fuselage: built of steel and light alloy housing the undercarriage members, the cockpit and the engine. Armament: three fuselage mounted MK 108/30 cannons. Engine: one He S 011 A-0 turbojet rated at 1,300 kg static thrust.

Wingspan: 9.95 m. Length: 7.56 m. Height: 2.62 m. Wing area: 14 sq. m. Max weight: 4,050 kg. Max speed: 1,070 km/h. Range: 1,150 km.

 

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Blohm und Voss P.212.02-02 & 03-02

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On December 19, 1944 was proposed the Blohm und Voss P.212.02-02.

It was basically the version of November 27, modified with 40-degrees swept wing and a new fuselage lengthened to 7.2 meters and fitted with a tail fin/tail rudder ensemble adapted to the suggestions from the Technisches Amt.

When the OKL had access to Japanese reports of the first fighting against the Boeing B-29, the Germans understood that it would be necessary to considerably increase the firepower of their fighters to fight with this giant bomber.

The March 28, 1945 specification for the production of the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 A-1 requested the addition of five weapons racks mounted beneath the wings and fuselage belly. The new fighter could carry four air-to-air Ruhrstahl X-4 missiles, three Trommelanlage containers with thirty air-to-air R4M unguided rockets each or one MK 112/55 heavy cannon capable of dismantling a B-29 US bomber with a single hit.

On February 1945 Blohm und Voss proposed the P.212.03-01 heavy fighter, based in the P.212.02-02, with a larger surface tailfin mounted on the rear of the fuselage, two rudder assemblies mounted on the wingtips and 22 nose mounted R4M rockets.

A variant called P.212.03-02, armed with seven MK 108/30, was also proposed but these modifications were not sufficient to achieve the approval of the Technisches Amt and the P.212 project was cancelled in mid-April 1945.

Blohm und Voss P.212.02-02 (December 19, 1944) technical data

Wings: built of wood/plywood with 40-degrees rear swept, housing the fuel tanks, flaps, elevators, ailerons and tailfins with wingtips drooped downwards with 30-degrees of anhedral angle. Aspect ratio: 4.56: 1. Fuselage: built of steel and light alloy housing the undercarriage members, the cockpit and the engine. Armament: three nose mounted MK 108/30 cannons. Engine: one HeS 011 A-1 turbojet rated at 1,600 kg static thrust.

Wingspan: 9.5 m. Length: 7.2 m. Height: 2.16 m. Wing area: 15.4 sq. m. Max weight: 4,180 kg. Max speed: 965 Km/h. Service ceiling: 12,000 m.

Blohm und Voss P.212.03-01 (January 11, 1945) technical data

Wings: built of steel/wood/plywood with 40-degrees rear swept, housing the fuel tanks, flaps, elevators, ailerons, and tailfins with wingtips drooped downwards with 30-degrees of anhedral angle. Aspect ratio: 4.56: 1. Fuselage: built of steel and light alloy housing the undercarriage members, the cockpit and the engine.

Armament: two fuselage mounted MK 108/30 cannons and 22 nose mounted R4M 55-mm rockets. Engine: one HeS 011 A-1 turbojet rated at 1,600 kg static thrust. Wingspan: 9.5 m. Length: 7.40 m. Height: 2.75 m. Wing area: 14 sq. m. Max speed: 965 km/h.

Blohm und Voss P.212.03-02 (February 1945) technical data

Wings: built of steel/wood/plywood with 40-degrees rear swept, housing the fuel tanks, flaps, elevators, ailerons, and tailfins with wingtips drooped downwards with 30-degrees of anhedral angle. Aspect ratio: 4.56: 1. Fuselage: built of steel and light alloy housing the undercarriage members, the cockpit and the engine. Armament: two fuselage mounted MK 108/30 cannons and 22 nose mounted R4M 55-mm rockets. Engine: one HeS 011 A-1 turbojet rated at 1,300 kg static thrust. Wingspan: 9.5 m. Length: 7.40 m. Height: 2.75 m. Wing area: 14 sq. m. Max weight: 5,030 kg.

 

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@Justo Miranda thank you!

 

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Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf I

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf II

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf III

Three versions of Zeppelin Rammer? Very interesting and tempting! (-;

 

[Justo Miranda]

Three versions of Zeppelin Rammer? Very interesting and tempting! (-;

- Rammschussjäger specification

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Between April 17, 1943, and April 20, 1945, a number of twenty six cases of ramming were registered, performed by German fighters of Messerschmitt Bf 109 type nine by Focke-Wulf Fw 190 four by Messerschmitt Me 262 one by Messerschmitt Bf 110 and another by Messerschmitt Me 410.

The ramming sometimes happened accidentally, due to miscalculation of distances by the pilot of the attacking aircraft, or because the pilot had been injured or killed by the defensive fire of the attacked aircraft. At other times, it was a desperate measure consequence to the malfunction of arms in a conventional attack made from behind. The impact used to occur at low speed because both aircraft were flying in the same direction, with the propeller of the attacking plane acting as a circular saw on the tail surfaces of the attacked plane. The rammer usually suffered damages in the propeller, engine bearings and engine cowling and the survival rate of the pilot used to exceed 50 per cent with a good chance of making a glide landing.

The four engine American bombers were particularly resistant and some managed to survive a ram attack. Even smaller airplanes like the D.H. Mosquito and the Grumman Bearcat managed to return to their bases after a mid-air collision following the loss of part of a wing.

When ramming large aircraft, it was more effective to target the fuselage section between wing and tail plane to sever control cables, but the side attack manoeuvre required a very precise calculation of relative speeds that only very expert pilots could perform. The impact, between 300 and 450 km/h, used to boot a wing of the attacking aircraft that fell into an uncontrollable flat spin; the pilot was violently thrown in opposite direction to the damaged wing, getting wounded or shocked and with survival possibilities below 25 per cent because the fuselage airframe tended to deform, rendering the opening of the cockpit very difficult.

In early 1944, the technological superiority achieved by the allies already allowed them to interfere German radio control systems. This particularly affected the development programs of antiaircraft missiles Enzian, Schmetterling, Feuerlilie and Rheintochter in a stage of the war when German fighters were unable to contain the offensive bombardment that increased in intensity day after day. The Me 262 proved to be a poor dogfighter against the Tempests and Mustangs allied fighters, the Komet killed more German pilots than the enemy and the RLM began to receive proposals for the manufacture of rammjägers and piloted missiles.

Rammjägers were designed as planes specialized in collision tactics, attacking from behind the bombers and ramming their tail surfaces. To reach the proper impact velocity, they used one or two solid-propellant rockets Schmidding 533/553 or Rheinmetall 515.

The Rammschussjäger RLM specification was published by the end of January 1944.

In February 1945, the Führer had decided to authorize the creation of some units specialized in aerial ramming tactics. He argued that the Luftwaffe was already losing 200 fighters a month in combat, against large formations of enemy bombers that were escorted by numerous Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters, without achieving significant results. According to the theories of Wing Commander Hans-Joachim Hermann, these 200 obsolete aircraft could be used as rammers in one massive attack that, according to the principle of concentration of forces, would cause such damage to the enemy that would generate important political consequences.

The Eight Air Force was able to afford the loss of 200 heavy bombers by ramming in every mission, bombers that the American industry would be able to replace in a week. But neither the General Spaatz nor public opinion could ignore the loss of 1,600 crew members in seven minutes of combat, especially when the war in Europe drew to a close. Perhaps this would be the weakness of democracies; maybe a series of well-coordinated rammstoss attacks succeeded in altering the relentless bombing offensive on the Reich, offering Göring the opportunity to attempt a First World War style negotiated peace.

On March 8, 1945, all of the Luftwaffe wing commanders were ordered to recruit S.O. pilots, acronym for Selbstopfermanner (self-sacrifice men), for a new fighter unit specialized in ramming that was called Sonderkommando Elbe.

Despite the rejection expressed by most senior officers of the Luftwaffe, some volunteer pilots began to concentrate at the Stendhal airfield, to follow a training program of two weeks that began on March 24.

Zeppelin Rammer (Entwurf I, II & III)​

At the end of 1944, the firm Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH proposed a rammer that would be fully built in steel, utilizing the greatest possible number of parts from the Fieseler V-1 missile. It should be towed to the vicinity of the bomber stream by a Messerschmitt Me 262 using the Starrschlepp pole-tow method. The launch would be at around 6,000 meters altitude and 2,000 meters ahead of the bomber stream.

The first attack would be made with a shallow glide, using a very powerful weaponry and high rate of fire, because the reaction time to shoot and avoid the collision at a relative speed of 1,000 km/h would be only 1.5 seconds.

The second attack required the use of one rocket engine to gain altitude and speed over the stream bomber and would begin with a 45-degrees dive directed against the back of one of the boxes, ending with an impact on the tail surfaces of a bomber. For this type of maneuver, the Rammer was equipped with a 30-mm thick armored nose, an IG Farben armored glass windshield of 90-mm thick and a strengthened wing with four tubular spars and Kuto-Nase devices installed on the leading edge.

The engine would be a Schmidding 109-533 solid-fuel rocket of 1,000 kg peak thrust and 12 seconds of life. The Schmidding would be interchangeable with a Rheinmetall-Borsig 109-515, with 4,000 kg thrust peak and 6 seconds of life.

The initial version proposed to the OKL would be armed with a Sondergerät 119 Rohrbatterie consisting of 49 barrels of MK 108/30 cannon, with an effective range of 400 meters and a rate of fire of 12,000 rounds per minute. The SG 119 could be replaced by 19 air-to-air R4M Orkan rockets housed within a cylindrical container located in the extreme nose.

In January 1945 flying trials were conducted with an unpowered glider and the construction of a pre-series sixteen machines began, but a bombing of the Friedrichshafen factory prevented its completion.

The second version would have a smaller front fuselage section, with ogival armored nose and the pilot seat in a reclined position. The armament was reduced to 14 R4M rockets with Abgasbleitung system for discharging laterally the gases produced during shooting. The selected engine was a Schmidding 109-553 with 1,750 kg peak thrust and 4 seconds of life.

The third version would have a wing of simplified structure with only three spars to save weight. The flaps had been replaced by a dorsal brake-parachute similar to that used by the Arado E 381. The armament of 14 R4M fin-stabilized rockets could be replaced by a Bienenwabe B3-7 container with seven spin-stabilized air-to-air Föhn rockets of 73-mm which had an effective range of 1,200 meters.

It was expected that the rammer survived the collision, landing on a retractable skid with the help of compressed-air operated flaps.

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf I technical data

Wingspan: 4.95 m. Length: 5.10 m. Height: 1.75 m. Wing chord: 1.2 m. Wing area: 6 sq. m. Max speed: 785 km/h. Landing speed: 110 km/h. Max weight: 860 kg.

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf II technical data

Wingspan: 4.83 m. Length: 5.10 m. Height: 1.32 m. Wing chord: 1.15 m. Wing area: 5.8 sq. m.

Zeppelin Rammer Entwurf III technical data

Wingspan: 4.90 m. Length: 5.10 m. Height: 1.20 m. Wing chord: 1.10 m. Wing area: 5.72 sq. m.

 

[Raketyr]

Rammschussjäger specification
Zeppelin Rammer (Entwurf I, II & III)​

Thank you very much!
A long time ago I had to save up to buy your book with the picture of Rammer punching the tail of a B-17 bomber on the front cover (-;

 

[hesham]

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf I

My dear Justo,

do you mean this one ?,

DVL Rammer Aircraft Project

Hi, the Germany DVL designed a Rammer aircraft project in 1944,and given the Patent P 87 683, intended to use against Allied bombers. Flugzeug Classic 7-2015

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[Justo Miranda]

My dear Justo,

do you mean this one ?,

DVL Rammer Aircraft Project

Hi, the Germany DVL designed a Rammer aircraft project in 1944,and given the Patent P 87 683, intended to use against Allied bombers. Flugzeug Classic 7-2015

www.secretprojects.co.uk

Hi

 

[Justo Miranda]

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf III​

Presented as a competitor in the Miniaturjäger contest against the DFS Eber design, it was armed with eight spin-stabilized Föhn or RZ 65 rockets housed in two protuberances on either side of the fuselage.

To improve the range and the chances of survival against the Allied fighters, it was suggested the installation of a small DFS pulsejet behind the cockpit, with an 'S' shaped air duct and a retractable dorsal air-intake that automatically deployed after being detached from the carrier plane.

It was estimated that the pulsejet of 200/300 kg of thrust would allow the Jagdsegler reach a maximum speed of 900 km/h. The original wing design was modified to install two fuel tanks of 97 liters each inside.

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf III technical data

Wingspan: 5 m. Lenght: 3.19 m. Height: 0.96 m. Fuselage diameter: 0.63 m. Wing area: 3 sq. m. Max weight: 640 kg. Endurance: 20 minutes of powered flight. Armament: four wing-mounted Fliegende Panzerschreck III, 88-mm, fin-stabilized, anti-tank grenades.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Verbrauchsflugzeug competition​

In the summer of 1944, the Technisches Amt began evaluating designs of midget interceptors submitted by DFS, DVL and Zeppelin for the Verbrauchsflugzeug (expendable airplane) contest, which demanded an expendable fighter capable of making two attacks per mission powered by solid propellant rockets.

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf II​

In order to meet the Verbrauchsflugzeug requirements, the Jagdsegler Entwurf I was modified with the installation of one Reinmetall-Borsig 109-505 solid-fuel rocket engine rated at 500 kg peak thrust.

It was armed with six spin-stabilized RZ 65 rockets housed in two protuberances on either side of the fuselage.


DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf II technical data

Wingspan: 5 m. Lenght: 3.19 m. Height: 0.96 m. Fuselage diameter: 0.63 m. Wing area: 3 sq. m. Max speed: 650 km/h. Armament: six spin-stabilized RZ 65 rockets of 73 mm.

 

[Justo Miranda]

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf I

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On June 30, 1944, Dipl. Ing. U. Kaiser, of the DVL Institut für Flugmechanik, designed a parasite fighter called Jagdsegler that was very similar in size and configuration to the DFS Eber.

Originally conceived as rammer, with the pilot in prone position, Jagdsegler had to be transported to the combat zone suspended under a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5 using an ETC 502 bomb rack. The launch would occur at an altitude of 750 meters over the bomber stream and 5 km ahead of the first bombers (thanks to its glide ratio of 11:1) to make a frontal attack with a speed of 300 km/h. Striking a bomber that flew in the opposite direction at 480 km/h ensured its destruction.

Following the publication of the results of the studies conducted by doctors Ruden and Schapitz, on impact protection devices at a high number of G-forces, the original purpose of Jagdsegler had to be abandoned because its small size did not allow the installation of shock absorbers and ejection devices. The project was modified with the installation of a Rheinmetall-Borsig 109-505 solid propellant rocket engine and was proposed to the RLM in four versions by the end of 1944: two parasite fighters and two parasite bombers.

DVL Jagdsegler Entwurf I technical data

Wingspan: 5 m. Length: 3.2 m. Height: 0.96 m. Fuselage diameter: 0.63 m. Wing area: 3 sq. m. Max speed: 300 km/h.

 

[Antonio]

I bought the book this week and I've started reading and enjoying it.

My first impressions are enthusiastic because it includes dozens of projects the way I Iove the most, grupped chronologically by competition. All of it gorgeously illustrated and described.
So this is probably one of the most must-have books addressed to those interested on III Reich aviation projects. Works both as a research starting point and a reference book.

Never thought about most of "Wunderwaffen" high tech fighter designs as "panic" fighters because their Allied counterparts at WWII early years were based on a low tech approach to allow mass production under resources shortage. Apparently two opposed approaches to the same problem.

 

[Justo Miranda]

I bought the book this week and I've started reading and enjoying it.

My first impressions are enthusiastic because it includes dozens of projects the way I Iove the most, grupped chronologically by competition. All of it gorgeously illustrated and described.
So this is probably one of the most must-have books addressed to those interested on III Reich aviation projects. Works both as a research starting point and a reference book.

Never thought about most of "Wunderwaffen" high tech fighter designs as "panic" fighters because their Allied counterparts at WWII early years were based on a low tech approach to allow mass production under resources shortage. Apparently two opposed approaches to the same problem.

 

[Justo Miranda]

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