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This is Luftorpedo Fi 105 C in flightRocket propulsion is used to accelerate to start the ramjets during the long take-off run and for ascension to interception height. Before that, his bi-fuel tanks must be nearly exhausted.
The transparent plastic cone is ejected just before firing the rocket salvo, and is placed to improve aerodynamics during the initial phase of the mission. It is transparent to allow ground crews to check the rockets before flight.
Ramjets are optimised to fly at 980 Km/h at 10.000 m height.
Bubble canopy was the first design put into production, later replaced by the design with two large optical sights and lateral circular flat windows (the same used by the V.T.O.L. "A" version).
Rocket salvo attack is needed to assure the destruction of incoming bombers armed with nuclear devices or other special mass-destruction weapons. If a sole bomber can escape undamaged, it can accomplish his mission provoking inmense damage to people and installations. This scenario must be avoided at any price. This scheme was active during the early years of the Cold War.
The recourse to nuclear bombs in a stage of a large conventional war is only logic in the part of a contendant that is losing a war of extermination against an enemy that threatens his survivability. This was not the case of Western Allies during WWII.
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Is great, Β if you had told me that is of a videogame i wouldΒ have believed
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Can be the start point of a videogame, RPG or other play game.
By the moment, a model kit.
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Bombers aren't fast, but the fighters were. Β So speed and agility were the prime needs of a fighter, to avoid or beat an enemy fighter. Β Downing a bomber with gun fire only was not an easy task. Β !0-15% of bombers was the average amount knocked down per mission.
A great design, Β Those short wings are very much like the Starfighters. Β
I believe it was Heinkel in early 1038-39 that designed a rocket plane but it was refused because the rockets were too dangerous.
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I really don't understand why the Luftwaffe were so obsessed with as much speed as possible. The 262 and 163 were already so fast that they only had approximately 2 seconds to line up and fire before they had to pull up to avoid a collision. Going faster would have only exacerbated the problem. And the rocket salvo attacks were really only able to take out a single bomber at a time, and had to be fired from such a distance that scoring a hit was very unlikely.
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Unguided rocket salvo is a mean to saturate the airspace with explosives in the trajectory of a bomber formation. The purpose of the attack is not only direct destruction of as much bombers as possible, but also to break a tight formation to allow the pursuit of isolated and damaged bombers (more easy prey for hunters).
Speed is essential in an air combat. Speed is equal to height, and height equals to speed. The fighter capable of greater speed can decide where and when to initiate the combat, and also can evade the pursuit and ignore the fighter escort.
A fast bomber can deliver more bombs on the same objetive at the same time at minor risk to be intercepted.
It was the lack of speed that condemned the Ju 87 Stuka in western skies (without escort).
The problem of accurate firing in much less time was studied by the Luftwaffe technicians that finally developped aircraft guns of much more rate of fire (Mauser MG 213 and MK 213), multibarrel weapons that fire automatically in the proper moment, without the intervention of the pilot, and also the guided missile.
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Yeah, but the American bombers always maintained their formations even when attacked. This was due to the fact that their strength was in a large group, where they could use their massed firepower. Also, speed is not essential for bombers. The Ju 87's main problem wasn't a lack of speed, but a lack of agility and the fact that the pilot was often preoccupied with diving. Also, the P-51 Mustangs were always perched above the bombers, so that you had to fly through them first. The German fighters most often attacked from a lower altitude, and so were vulnerable while in the climb. The Mustangs were also routinely sent ahead of the bombers, to "clean" the sky and airfields in the path of the bombers. After the raid, the fighters were then free to roam at will and engage any enemy fighters they encountered.
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