In Service: to
First Flight:
Manufacturer: Henschel
Number built: 1,900 All variants
Type: Anti-ship Missiles
Guidance system: television guidance
Length: 4.5 m
Wingspan: 3.1 m
Diameter: 0.47 m
Weight: 1,345 kg
Engine: 1 ×
Walter
HWK 109-507B liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to
590 kg of thrust
Maximum speed: 435 km/h
Range: 12 km
Warhead: 295 kg
Fuze: impact fuse
Launch Platform:
Do 217,
He
111
Operators: Luftwaffe
Variants:
Hs 293A
Hs 293B
Hs 293C
Hs 293D
Hs 293E
Hs 293F
Hs 293H
Other: Missiles
Articles:
The Henschel Hs 293D was a anti-ship missile Designed and
developed by
Henschel
und Sohn in 1939 under the leadership of Dr.-Ing.
Herbert
Alois Wagner.
The Henschel Hs 293D was intended to be deployed against Allied
shipping.
Continued development of the standard
Henschel
Hs 293 A-1 led to the development of the Henschel Hs 293D
which had an enlarged nosecone, to allow for the installation
of a Tonne A nose camera, other modifications included Yagi
aerial, which was fitted at the rear of the missile. The entire
television guidance system was put together by Fernesh GmbH,
under the guidance of Dr Weiss. The Henschel Hs 293D used
the same engines 1 ×
Walter
HWK 109-507B liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to
590 kg of thrust, alternatively the
BMW
109-511 liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to 600
kg or
WASAG
109-512 solid fuel rocket engine producing up to 1,200
kg of thrust.
Testing the Henschel Hs 293D was achieved by using
Do
217,
He
111 as carrier aircraft which were then modified to carry
a Yagi aerial and Seedorf receiver equipment, actual testing
began early in 1944, against a wreck lying off the coast of
Karlshagen. Dr.-Ing.
Herbert
Alois Wagner took the position of the bomb aimer throughout
most of the testing however testing did not go as planned.
Dr.-Ing.
Wagner
stated that he was inexperienced as a bomb aimer, and also
suggested that the lack of indoor simulators, hampered the
progress of testing. This weapon was not used operationally.
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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