Blohm & Voss
L10 Friedensengel

Anti-ship Missiles

Service Data

In Service: 1943 to 1945

Production Data

First Flight: 21 December 1943
Manufacturer: Blohm & Voss
Number built: 450

Technical Data

Type: Anti-ship Missiless

Guidance system:
Length: 3.9 m
Wingspan: 2.8 m
Diameter: 0.588 m
Weight: 220 kg
Engine: none
Maximum speed: km/h
Range: 8,500 m
Warhead: kg
Fuze:
Launch Platform: He 111, Ju 188
Operators: Luftwaffe
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Other: Missiles
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History

The Blohm & Voss L10 Friedensengel (Angel of Peace) was a winged torpedo glide bomb designed and developed by Blohm & Voss in 1942 under the leadership of Dr.-Ing. Richard Vogt.

The Blohm & Voss L10 Friedensengel (Angel of Peace ) looked like a small aircraft in its own right, and was designed to carry a standard LT 950 aerial torpedo up to 9,000 m towards an enemy target. The carrier aircraft making the attack run had to fly at a steady speed of 310 km/h, once the torpedo had been released. The carrier aircraft triggered a time fuse, thereby deploying a small kite which was towed behind a glide bomb on a 25 m cable. When the glid bomb hit the surface of the water, sensors in the Kite would detach the glider body, allowing the torpedo to continue fully submerged to target.

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Sources

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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