13.03.2010, 11:51
Very impressive hock: hock: 8) . If it was already available somewhere I would certainly download.
But from military viewpoint a project like that one, if ever suggested back in 45-46, would have been cancelled immediately:
I know it is just a launcher not ment for combat, but still it has to survive until it reaches high altitude and releases the 5 missiles. Just look at the design, clearly too much drag and quite big/heavy. No matter how powerfull those 6 engines would be, that thing can't be very fast. Extremely easy target for the overwhelming allied air power. In terms of vulnerability, this design is no more than a gigantic stuka. Can't survive without absolute air superiority. To launch missiles, germans would use He111H21 or He 111Z or so rather than an entire new design with probably inexistent tactic flexibility (can't use that thing for multiroles).
(on a side note: this reminds me a bit the gigant railway canons that were much more impressive than military efficient).
This project from early 1945? Sorry, but I don't think so. This for sure is 200% fantasy and was never in the drawing board or minds of any german designer, ever (if I am wrong, please, tell us where is the crucial info)
This said... I don't mind anybody requesting it (or requesting any other thing), the modder can do it if it has fun at it
Personally, for a strange project, I would rather go for the Junkers 287 family , which have interesting shapes, must have an even more interesting FM and many data including pictures do attest its existence. The V1 prototype was tested in 45 ,the V2 was in the build process when russians captured the place and the working team. As a consequence, there is a russian outcome of this interesting project: the EF-140, a russian built version of EF-131 (=Ju 287v3, with Ju 388 fuselage instead of Heinkel 177) with 2 RR Nene & flown in 1948. I only know of one or two photos of it.
Ju287 V1
Ju287 V2 or V3
Russian EF 140
But from military viewpoint a project like that one, if ever suggested back in 45-46, would have been cancelled immediately:
I know it is just a launcher not ment for combat, but still it has to survive until it reaches high altitude and releases the 5 missiles. Just look at the design, clearly too much drag and quite big/heavy. No matter how powerfull those 6 engines would be, that thing can't be very fast. Extremely easy target for the overwhelming allied air power. In terms of vulnerability, this design is no more than a gigantic stuka. Can't survive without absolute air superiority. To launch missiles, germans would use He111H21 or He 111Z or so rather than an entire new design with probably inexistent tactic flexibility (can't use that thing for multiroles).
(on a side note: this reminds me a bit the gigant railway canons that were much more impressive than military efficient).
This project from early 1945? Sorry, but I don't think so. This for sure is 200% fantasy and was never in the drawing board or minds of any german designer, ever (if I am wrong, please, tell us where is the crucial info)
This said... I don't mind anybody requesting it (or requesting any other thing), the modder can do it if it has fun at it
Personally, for a strange project, I would rather go for the Junkers 287 family , which have interesting shapes, must have an even more interesting FM and many data including pictures do attest its existence. The V1 prototype was tested in 45 ,the V2 was in the build process when russians captured the place and the working team. As a consequence, there is a russian outcome of this interesting project: the EF-140, a russian built version of EF-131 (=Ju 287v3, with Ju 388 fuselage instead of Heinkel 177) with 2 RR Nene & flown in 1948. I only know of one or two photos of it.
Ju287 V1
Ju287 V2 or V3
Russian EF 140