Focke-Wulf Fw 259 Frontjäger?

[cluttonfred]

I saw this in a list of Focke-Wulf aircraft and projects on Wikipedia, marked "concept," but my Google fu has turned up nothing. The name is intriguing...anyone know more?

 

[Apophenia]

Sorry, no. But this was an RLM-assigned designation so it was a wartime project.

 

[airman]

I suppose it's mistake ! ???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf#List_of_Focke-Wulf_aircraft

Could be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_159

 

[Jemiba]

"The name is intriguing...anyone know more?"

Do you mean "Frontjäger" ? That's not a name, but designation of a class
of fighter aircraft, which, as far as I know, was used only in the Soviet airforce
and later in the airforces of the Warsaw Pact. In the west it was called "air
superiority fighter", I think, with no real equivalent during WW II.

 

[Tzoli]

air superiority fighter?
Like Interceptor?

 

[Jemiba]

more modern term may be "air dominance fighter".
Anyway "Frontjäger" is a description of a mission, not a name as for example
"Spitfire" and to my opinion this description wasn't used in war time Germany
and not in the FRG.

 

[Maveric]

"Fw.259, Weiterentwicklung der Fw.159, mit D.B.601"

( Fw.259, advancement of the Fw.159, with D.B.601)

Source: Bruno Lange "Typenhandbuch der deutschen Luftfahrttechnik"

No illustration.

 

[cluttonfred]

Mystery solved, it seems, thanks!

 

[VictorXL188]

Following on Maverick's post above I sketched out, using an existing GA profile view of an Fw 159 and the nose of a Bf 109E, what the proposed Fw 259 might have looked like. I have to stress that this is purely speculative.View attachment 692862

 

[tomo pauk]

Following on Maverick's post above I sketched out, using an existing GA profile view of an Fw 159 and the nose of a Bf 109E, what the proposed Fw 259 might have looked like. I have to stress that this is purely speculative.View attachment 692862

The nose is from the Jumo-powered Bf 109s.

 

[VictorXL188]

Following tomo pauk's valid comment I have edited the picture and substituted the nose of an E-3 variant.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Nice but is the image available?