LUFTWAFFE 1946

Secret Weapons

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First prototype of the Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter

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V-2 being prepared for launch at London England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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12 May 1945. Captured Me 262 A-2a/U2 V555 Weimar Germany.

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Heinkel He.162A-2 Luftwaffe 120227/Red 2

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Designed by Kurt Tank, it was similar in configuration to the proposed Messerschmitt P.1110 in 1945

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A captured Dornier Do 335 at Oberpfaffenhofen, May 1945. #WWII #WW2.

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Another painting l did in 2019.

Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet.

Acrylic on paper 42 x 29cm

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10 April 1945. Graphic depicting the Luftwaffe's final sortie over Great Britain. A Norwegian-based Arado 234 of 9/KG76 on a reconnaissance mission over Scotland.

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ME262B Night Fighter

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The first Me 262 prototype was built with a Junkers Jump 210 piston engine in the nose.

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Blohm & Voss P 170 Prototype (Designed in 1942)

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Skoda-Kauba V5 Concept (1943).

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Skoda-Kauba V5 Concept (1943).

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When Hitler first saw the Me 262 in November 1943, he asked Willy Messerschmitt if it could bomb. Messerschmitt lied and said yes, then scrambled to make it true. Whether this delayed the jet’s deployment is debatable, but the result was a very short-range, very inaccurate fighter-bomber that had no impact on the battles to come.

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Ho 229: the first stealth? Well, not quite - but WWII Germany’s experimental flying-wing came eerily close. Designed by Reimar Horten, it featured radical ideas, including radar-absorbing paint made from coal and sawdust and top-mounted engines that reduced its IR signature. Stealth and IR masking weren’t even concepts in the 1940s - yet the Ho 229 had all the right instincts. It had tech decades ahead of its time.

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Messerschmitt Me 263 Scholle (Plaice) rocket fighter. An improvement on the Me 163 Komet, three were built but only gliding trial flights were undertaken before the end of the war

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The Luftwaffe flies its final sortie over England, A Norwegian-based Arado 234 of 9/KG76 on a reconnaissance mission over Scotland. 10/4/45.

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