In Service: 1944 to 1945
First Flight:
Manufacturer: Ruhrstahl
Number built:
Type: Anti-tank Missile
Guidance system:
Length: 0.95 m
Wingspan: 0.60 m
Diameter: 0.15 m
Weight: 9 kg
Engine: 2 ×
WASAG
109-506 solid fuel rocket engine producing up to kg of
thrust
Maximum speed: 360 km/h
Range: 1,2 km
Warhead: 2.5 kg
Fuze: impact fuse
Launch Platform:
Operators: Luftwaffe
Variants:
Other: Missiles
Articles:
The X-7 Rotkäppchen (Red Riding Hood) was a anti-tank
missile. Designed and developed by
Ruhrstahl
AG in 1943, After the Heereswaffenamt (Army Ordnance Board)
placed an urgent order for anti-tank missiles, this project
was under the leadership of Dipl.-Ing. Max
Otto Kramer.
The X-7 Rotkäppchen (Red Riding Hood) This weapon was
intended to be deployed against tanks and armoured vehicles.
Dipl.-Ing. Max
Otto Kramer had been experimenting since early 1938, with
remote control freefalling bombs, and in 1940. Kramer
joined
Ruhrstahl
AG.
The X-7 Rotkäppchen (Red Riding Hood) was shell shaped
body had two wins at its aft end with parabolic leading and
trailing edges and two small pods for the wire link spools
were attached to the wing tips, spoiler control was simplified
on the X-7 Rotkäppchen by the installation of only one
spoiler on an extended curved arm. The rocket motor used was
1 ×
WASAG
109-506 solid fuel rocket engine producing up to kg of
thrust. The wire link control system was employed for the
X-7 Rotkäppchen which used Düsseldorf FuG 510 transmitter
and the Detmold FuG 238 receiver, also a radio controlled
system was planned for the X-7 Rotkäppchen using the
FuG 203/230h. detonation was achieved by use of an impact
fuse.
A few hundred X-7 Rotkäppchen were produced at
Ruhrstahl
AG Brackwede factory however there were unconfirmed reports
of the X-7 being used operationally on the eastern front,
and it appears that this missile was extremely effective.
Even against the heavy armoured, Stalin tanks.
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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