The History channel sucks, read a book, hehe, the Ta 183's speed was estimated at about 597mph (the version that flew in Argentina after the war proved that its top speed was over-estimated) at 23k which places it 100 mph slower than the F86 and 60 mph of the 'studmuffinot'(that was actually the Allied reporting named for the Mig15
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In rate of climb terms, the Sabre and studmuffin again blow the competition away with the Ta183 struggling along at only 4740 ft/min, the Sabre at 9.3k a min and the studmuffin at about 8.5k ft/min. There are many other comparisons I could make, but its just waste of time, I dunno who those so-called experts are, but they need to refine their research sk1| |z.
If the 183 had entered operation service after its scheduled test flight for May/June 45 and first production machines completed by 10/45, the 183 would most likely be carrying the RUHRSTAHL-KRAMER X4 (the one you see on the 183 in that History channel episode that aired this weekend), the X4 was the first guided missle with A2A capability used during World war 2 it used 2 control wires connected to 2 wings on each side of the X4, which were connected to the wing and controlled using the FuG 510 guidance system using the "Dogge" and "Meise". It would be flown to the proximty of the enemy bombers then it would automatically explode by the means of an acoustic fuse. The first X4 prototypes had straight wings but it was then realised that swept back wings on the X4 would compliment its use on faster-moving Jet aircraft, thus reducing air resistance. A warhead of 20kg or 44lb would be fitted in the nose behind the proximaty fuse that would be detonated by the noise of target bombers. All in all 1,300 of these missles were produced, however, most of them never received their engines because the BWM plant had be destroyed by allied bombers. At the end of the war during many of the X4 test flights it is beleived that severel of them were launched against allied bombers, however, the X4 was never actually deployed to the Luftwaffe.
