nazi germany

Hello friends! I'd like to know if any development work has been done on the Admiral Hipper's 190mm guns. I've come across information about the Admiral Hipper's 190mm guns before, but I've never found any comprehensive information about them. Why was such a non-standard caliber chosen? Was...

Schienenkampfwagen SK 1 (roughly translates to Rail Combat Vehicle SK 1). Series of Panzer III tanks fit with a set of retractable railroad wheels allowing the vehicle to travel on land and rail. They were used for railroad patrol in Eastern Europe starting from 1943, and had a maximum speed (on...

Proposal to increase the speed of Zeppelin travel up to 150km/h+ by utilizing one or multiple towing aircraft. Alternatively, a "Zeppelin train" consisting of multiple Zeppelins and unpowered balloons being towed by the combined propulsion of both the Zeppelins and the fixed-wing aircraft. This...

Junkers G.38 flying wing concept. All passenger accomodations would have been placed within the aircraft's wings with forward facing windows. A twin boom design with two engines in pusher configuration was also envisioned. Source: "Prof. Junkers nannte es "Die Fliege"" by Hermann Pohlmann

German late-war artillery projects. Towed: -- 21 cm "Elefant" Granatwerfer 69 -- 30,5 cm "Elefant" Granatwerfer -- 38 cm Granatwerfer -- 42 cm Granatwerfer Self-propelled: -- 21cm GrW 69 "Elefant" on "Hummel" chassis --21cm Granatwerfer Elefant on mittlerer Waffenträger -- 38cm Wurfgerät on...

Blohm & Voss Ha 139 Flying boat projects and derivatives. Ha 139 information & photograph archive. https://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?17545 Hamburger Flugzeugbau pdf document, detailed overview of the Ha 139 with rare photographs from the...

Hello. Was wondering lately if the Tiger series was to be continued onwards after Tiger II. I found some sources suggesting that the E75 of the "Entwicklung" series was to be the Tiger II's successor, albeit the project never left the drawing board. Were there any other candidates for the Tiger...

Early mockups of the Do X that I found. They are of an unknown date, and appear to have between 10 - 12 engines in various configurations. Apparently the fuel tanks were to be positioned between the passenger cabins. Does anyone have any more info or sources for the images? Thank you.

I am curious about the P.187, a land based variant of the BV 222.

I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong category, if so, please move it to where it belongs. ---- I've been researching the fate of Germany's largest flying boat, yet there's very little clarity in regards to what happened to it. It is generally agreed upon that the Bv 238 was strafed by...

Sometime during WW2 Focke-Wulf studied a series of 3 very heavy bomber/reconnaissance aircraft designs, which go as follows: Wulf Fw P.0310.224.20 Long range bomber powered by 4 BMW 801E engines. Patrol and reconnaissance configurations were envisioned. Wulf Fw P.0310.224.30 Long range...

Self propelled Rocket Launcher developed by Ernst Neumann Neander 1943 - Panzerhetzer armed with Panzerschreck 1944 - Panzerhetzer III 1945 - Panzerhetzer IV armed with six Panzerfaust Source: https://smallarmsreview.com/a-tricycle-to-fight-tanks-the-german-panzerhetzer-project/

The Germans designed plenty of jet aircraft but which of them were actually good?

8000 ton U-Transporter (English: " 8,000 ton undersea transport") A very large freight submarine, potentially as means of bypassing allied blockades or resupplying submarines at sea. Weight: 8,000 t Length: 132m Beam: 15m All other information unknown. Drawing is found on the Bundesarchiv...

LAUSTER WARGEL -GROSSRADFAHRZEUG "UNTERWASSER-FAHRZEUG" LAUSTER WARGEL - UNDERWATER TROOP AND WEAPON TRANSPORTER - Erhard Lauster - Bruno Eckert - BATTLE OF BRITAIN - TWO FRONT WHEELS (DIAMETER 8,5m) AND SINGLE REAR WHEEL - 1:4 Model SOURCE: "Wunibald I. E. Kamm - Wegbereiter der modernen...

Blohm & Voss P.191 Very large, 8-engined aircraft. Designed to protect German bombers from flak by neutralizing it midair. Looking for information.

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I found this one on youtube,its rather interesting as evidently the worlds first nuclear reactor disaster took place during the middle of ww2 in germany. Whats quite astonishing about this experimental reactor was that it had no control system,it had a way to start it but no way of controlling...

Hi everybody I have found a very unusual Project from the Germans in 1945. It should be called the "MANTA" It should be a Submarine-Catamaran-Glider designed by Hellmuth Walther. Able to drive on land, drive at high speed on water and also to submerge . SOME DATA length: 15m, breadth: 6m ...

The Regener Tonne, or Regener Barrel, was a scientific payload intended for the V-2 rocket. I saw a user (Hafidz Rahman) had mentioned it in a thread about the possibility of German WW2 satellite projects, and it certainly seems as close as they came. It's the forefather of the sounding rockets...