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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt.It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph) in level flight.
The Messerschmitt Me 263 Scholle [1] was a rocket-powered fighter aircraft developed from the Me 163 Komet towards the end of World War II.Three prototypes were built but never flown under their own power as the rapidly deteriorating military situation in Germany prevented the completion of the test program.
DFS 40 Lippisch tailless research aircraft; DFS 194 rocket-powered research aircraft, forerunner of Me 163; DFS 228 rocket-powered reconnaissance aircraft (prototype) DFS 230 transport glider; DFS 331 transport glider (prototype) DFS 332 wing profile research aircraft; DFS 346 supersonic research aircraft (incomplete prototype only)
The Henschel Hs 297 Föhn or 7.3 cm Raketen Sprenggranate was a small German surface-to-air rocket of the Second World War. The associated multiple rocket launcher was known as the 7.3 cm Föhn-Gerät .
Dryden, Hugh L. German Guided Missile Development. Memorandum for the Commanding General Army Air Forces, October 1945. Felkin, S.D. Natter – German rocket interceptor. ADI (K), Report No. 303/1945, May 1945. Ford, Brian. German Secret Weapons: Blueprint for Mars (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Weapons Book No. 5). New York ...
Jason R. Wisniewski, Powering the Luftwaffe: German Aero Engines of World War II, FriesenPress, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2013. Bill Gunston, World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines: From the Pioneers to the Present Day, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Phoenix Mill UK, 2006.
The reunified Germany's military aircraft consisted of a mix of East and West German Aircraft that were in service along with new aircraft acquired after combining. In 2004 the last remnants of the communist East German armed forces "NVA" have been given to neighbour countries of Germany, such as Poland.
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system.. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used during World War II.