#ba 349

[carbone14]

Intercepteur expérimental à décollage vertical Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" - 1945

L'armement du Natter consistait en une batterie de 24 roquettes HS 217 Föhn située dans le nez du fuselage.

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[bassman5911]

Bachem Ba 349 “Natter” – vertical takeoff, rocket-powered interceptor death trap

The Bachem Ba 349 “Natter” was a radical prototype aircraft produced by Nazi germany during the final years of the war when the allies were starting to push ever closer to Berlin. The aircraft was essentially a very early version of a homing missile, and it was just one of several similar projects to be under development in Germany at the time. The primary target of the Bachem Ba 349 was to be the allied bombers which were slowly bringing the German war machine to a halt.

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[panzertron]

Captured German Secret Weapons 1945

[ironandsmokewriter]

The Bachem Ba 349 Natter marks yet another milestone in the Jagdwaffe's swift slide into madness in the wake of the U.S. 8th Air Force campaign of April of 1944. Another member of The Fat One's menagerie of potential Volksjager throw-away fighters approved by the R.L.M., the Natter was to be a rocket powered, missile armed point defense fighter.

Pretty standard stuff for post April of '44 R.L.M., really.

Save for the fact that it was meant to be launched vertically from a platform similar to that used by the V.1, was built entirely out of plywood, had a nose-cone stuffed with 24 air-to-air rockets, and wasn't meant to land.

The game plan for the benighted sots stuck piloting the Ba 349 was that as a bomber squadron approached the factory defended by the Natter nest, they would be launched at break-neck speed into the air and aim their diminutive craft at their targets, discharge their rockets in a single salvo, then bail out.

As brilliant as this scheme doubtless seemed on paper (save to the pilots), a few difficulties arose.

The g-forces involved in the launch of the Natter were so intense that the test pilot passed out, leading to his death in a fiery crash. This was "remedied" by installing a rudimentary auto pilot that would take control of the entire launch.

In the end, however, the advancing Allied troops stopped the Ba 349 from ever entering combat. Much to the relief of those assigned to pilot the craft, I'm sure.