Henschel GT 1200

[maxmwill]

Is there anything on this as well as any variants of the Henschel GT 1200 air launched torpedo? I have the little resin kit from Unicraft, and would like to know whereI can find more information on this. Igor's kit shows two different variants, one being the kit instruction, the other as "bag art"( like box art, only this came in a baggie with a small color illustration that's a better building guide than the instructions

 

[maxmwill]

Is there anything on this as well as any variants of the Henschel GT 1200 air launched torpedo? I have the little resin kit from Unicraft, and would like to know whereI can find more information on this. Igor's kit shows two different variants, one being the kit instruction, the other as "bag art"( like box art, only this came in a baggie with a small color illustration that's a better building guide than the instructions

 

[Grzesio]

There were three variants of the GT 1200 proposed by Henschel in 1943, carrying a 533 mm warhead. I think, nothing is known about them save for a couple of dimensions, which not neccessarily match the drawings.
The variant designations A, B and C are postwar and fictional.

 

[Luftfahrtsammler]

Here are a view documents about GT 1200 from my collection:
1.) 2 pages of Handbook on Guided Missiles of Germany and Japan
Military Intelligence Service, War Department Washington 25, D.C.
MID 461, 1th February 1946
(signatur in my collection: D6650)





2.) Two original documents about GT 1200 and LT 1200:

best regards
Oliver

 

[GTX]

Interesting choice of aircraft shown in that second image: The Ha 142/BV 142 was an obscure choice with only 4 built. I wonder if it was planned to be used only because it was available for trials?

 

[Grzesio]

Size comparison of GT 1200 "B" and GT 1200 "C".
Then, an interesting question is, how the "chin" of the "C" variant could actually look like - obviously not the way it is shown in the usually published drawings, which present its outline only.
Also the torpedo grew up a little bit - its length is given as 5000 mm in the 1940 documents kindly presented by Luftfahrtsammler, while it is 43 cm longer in the 1942 drawings.