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Offline Batz

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SG500 Jägerfaust for the 163
« on: March 24, 2004, 02:35:57 PM »
Sondergerät 500 Jägerfaust -

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..., the Hasag company in Leipzig developed Jaegerfaust (fighter fist), an automatic firing system. As applied to the Me163 Jaegerfaust comprised 10 vertically mounted 50mm gun barrels built into the wing roots, five on each side. Each barrel was loaded with a single 2.2-pound high explosive shell, to balance out the recoil forces, as the shells were fired upwards at the enemy aircraft, counterweights weighing as much as the shells were fired downwards and clear of the Me163. The barrels were fired in rapid succession, triggered by a photo-electric cell which detected the shadow of the enemy aircraft as it passed overhead. All the Me163 pilot had to do was prime the Jaegerfaust and fly his aircraft underneath the target bomber within about 325 feet either from tail-on or, if he wished, from head on. The barrels were divided into two groups of five for firing , enabling the pilot to carry out two attacks before he had to land and reload.

The system performed impressively during trials against a cloth target the size of a bombers wing, streached between two teathered ballons. Before the end of the war about a dozen Me163's were modified to carry Jaegerfaust, but only once was it used in action. On 10th April 1945, Leutant Fritz Kelb took off to test it out and caught a lone B-17 straggling behind its formation near Leipzig. He made a singe devastating high speed attack with the new weapon and the American bomber went down shedding pieces...

section of text is reproduced from "World War II Fighting Jets" by Alfred Price


http://www.sml.lr.tudelft.nl/~home/rob/me163/weapon01.htm

Only 6-12 163's were equipped with the Jägerfaust and atleast 1 kill was confirmed.

OH yeah and rockets for the F-8 :)

Offline Guppy35

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SG500 Jägerfaust for the 163
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2004, 04:01:39 PM »
OK if  we're gonna start asking for that kinda stuff, I'm gonna start howling for my Spit XII to go with the LF IX/XVI we don't have :)

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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2004, 06:21:14 PM »
Yes rockets for F8 please.
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SG500 Jägerfaust for the 163
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2004, 04:37:43 PM »
Ditto for 163 and F8 Rockets.

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