In Service: 1943 to 1945
First Flight:
Manufacturer: Rheinmetall-Borsig
Number built:
Type: Air-to-Air Missiles
Guidance system:
Length: m
Wingspan: m
Diameter: 280 mm 320 mm
Weight: kg
Engine: 1 × rocket engine
Maximum speed: 1,200 km/h
Range: 1,925 m
Warhead: 41.50 kg
Fuze:
Launch Platform: Fw
190,
Me 262,
Bf 110,
Bf
109
Operators: Heer, Luftwaffe
Variants:
28/32
cm Nebelwerfer 41
28/32 cm Wurfkörper
Other: Missiles
Articles:
The 28/32 cm Wurfkörper was a air to air missile designed
and developed by
Rheinmetall-Borsig
AG.
Which was adapted from the armies
28/32
cm Nebelwerfer 41 (28/32 cm Nb.Wf 41) Which was a six
barreled multiple rocket launcher mounted on a two wheeled
carriage. And fired a 28 cm Wurfkörper Spreng missile
or the 32 cm Wurfkörper Flamm missile that was spin stabilised
electrically fired. The 28/32 cm Wurfkörper was mounted as
auxiliary armament beneath the wings of the
Fw
190,
Me 262,
Bf 110,
Bf
109 as a single launcher tube fitted to each wing, but
because of the high amount of drag they caused, it was Similar
in appearance to the
28/32
cm Nebelwerfer 41 used by the army.
The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822
German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242
Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X
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