This topic about the Hs 294 air to air / Hs 294 anti ship missiles.
Hs 298
Hs 294
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Hs 294
This missile is the Henschel Hs 294, a German experimental guided missile derived from the Hs 293 series. It was designed to penetrate ship hulls by entering the water near the target and continuing underwater before impact. The production numbers listed suggest multiple prototype and pre-production variants were built, but it never reached mass deployment.
Hs 298
The Henschel Hs 298 was Germany’s first purpose-built air-to-air guided missile , developed during World War II by Professor Herbert
First flight: 22 December 1944
Purpose: Specifically designed to attack Allied bomber aircraft — the first missile intended solely for air-to-air combat.
General characteristics :
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- Body diameter: 620 mm
- Length: 6114 mm
- Weight: 2170 kg
- Engine: 2 × HWK 109-507D
- Thrust: 1,300 kiloponds
- Explosive weight: 630 kg
- Wing area: 4025 mm (likely a transcription error; should be in square meters or cm²)
- Wing volume/length: 5.30 cubic meters (again, possibly a mistranslation—likely intended as wingspan)
Hs 294 types :
- Hs 294 V1: 20 units
- Hs 294 V2: 45 units
- Hs 294 A-0: 40–80 units
- Hs 294 D: 20 units
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- Length: 2 meters
- Wingspan: 1.24 meters
- Weight: 120 kg
- Engine: Schmidding solid-fuel rocket motor
- Burn time: 25 seconds
- Warhead: 48 kg (106 lb) high explosive — larger than the unguided BR 21 rockets used earlier.
Guidance: MCLOS (Manual Command to Line of Sight) — the launch aircraft’s pilot guided the missile via joystick and radio transmitter.
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Planes could carry Hs 294 / Hs 298 :
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- Heinkel He 111 – medium bomber, adapted for guided bomb/missile carriage.
- Dornier Do 217 – one of the main launch platforms for German guided weapons.
- Heinkel He 177 Greif – heavy bomber, capable of carrying larger payloads like the Hs 294.
- Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor – maritime patrol bomber, used for anti-shipping missions.
- Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – in some test configurations, though not a primary carrier.
- Ju290 could carry 1
Hs 298
- Dornier Do 217 (up to 5 missiles on special launch rails)
- Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (up to 2 missiles)
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