More Do 335 Variants

Scärlett · January 17, 2026, 1:09pm

Hello this topic will be talking about Do 335 Variants and which could be added to the game !
There already 2 suggestion about the Do 335 B-12 / Do 335 B-6 in the forums !

Also please keep in mind these info could be wrong and not right !

Feel free to post any better info about the Do 335 in comments if you have !

I will add info about some interesting variants !

Will be focusing on Do 335 with better engines and longer wings yes longer wings !

Also with more info more suggestions could be made for Do 335 but right now it’s limited so i can’t make suggestion without having good amount of info !

List of Do 335:

Do 335 B-3: updated B-1 but with longer wing.
Do 335 B-4 : update of the B-1 with longer wing, DB603L engine.
Do 335 A-9/A-4: A-4 fitted with longer wing, DB603L engines and pressurized cockpit.
Do 435???: Do 335 with the redesigned, longer wing. Allied intelligence reports from early May 1945 mention spotting a Do 435 at the Dornier factory airfield at Lowenthal.This one i can’t find any proof very very limited sources

Books:
Note not all pages i will post that will take me 20m snails years.

Book (1)

Book (2)

Book (3)

images and looks

Exra info

Dornier P.238

The Dornier Do 335 was a formidable combat machine, with a great development potential that was interrupted by the end of the WWII.

The push-pull formula, combined with the use of different types of engines, proved that it could satisfy the main needs of the Luftwaffe by the end of 1943.

Conventional night fighter (Do 435 C-1, C-2, D-1 & D-2)
Mixed power night fighter (Do 335 A&B)
Antitank, zerstörer and fighter bomber (Do 335 B-2, B-1 & A-1)
Light bomber (Do 335 A-2)
Trainer (Do 335 B-5)
Recce (Do 435 B-4)
High altitude Recce (Do 335 B-4)
Long range Recce (Do 335 Z)

This design served as the base for the four engine, 8,000 km range, Junkers Ju 635 bomber.

The last push-pull Dornier was the P.238 that derived from the Do 435 with elongated fuselage of up to 17.10 m. and Jumo 222 E/F engines.

The P.238/1 had the wing and tail surfaces of a standard Do 335 and it was presented in two versions: zerstörer (A-1) and fighter bomber (B-1).

The P.238/2 had the new wing with a 18.33 m span designed by Heinkel for the Do 335 B-4 and it was presented in the escort fighter version (A-2) and high altitude interceptor (B-2) capable to face the Boeing B-29 of the Allies.

There are some night fighter versions, as the time when the project was presented the old Hirschgeweigh antennae of the Lichtenstein radar had been replaced by parabolic ones, designed to be installed on the nose cone of the aircraft. And this was not possible in the P.238.

For this reason, and for the excessive drag produced by the frontal cooler, the manufacturing of the Do 435 has already been discarded on 28 August 1944. By the end of that year, the Dornier Project Office decided to interrupt the push-pull developments in favour of the P.247 and P.252 projects, which possessed more advanced aerodynamics and allowed higher speed and the installation of last generation radars.

Technical Data

But again i can’t proof if this thing is even really only claims if you have better sources feel to post them !

Extra Extra info:

Dornier Do 335 Arrow. J R Smith and E. J. Creek

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dornier-Do-335-Luftwaffes-Piston-engine/dp/1903223679

Chapter 3 “What might have been”. Pg 97-98

Do 435 was a long span version for which the Do 335 V4 served as a prototype. A number of variants were proposed on 12 September 1944 according to original German sources.

A-1 and A-2: Bombers.
B-1 to B-3: Night/Bad Weather fighter
C-1 and C-2: Reconnaissance
D-1 and D-2: Führungsflugzeug

All variants with DB603L engines.

According to British Intelligence document:

It was a modified Do 335 version intended as a night fighter. Crew of two seated syde-by-side in pressurized cockpit. Radar equipment. Long-span wooden panels. Jumo 222 engines.