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Bachem Ba 349 Natter

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: X-Planes

MSRP old price: $20.00


Product Info

Title
Bachem Ba 349 Natter
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Robert Forsyth
Publish Year
2018
Pages
80
Dimensions
7.25x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147706427
MFG. Part #
OSPXPL008
Type
Softcover
Series
XPL008

Description

The Bachem Ba 349 Natter was a secretive, vertical take-off, single-seat rocket interceptor intended to offer high-speed defense of key targets. This radical aircraft offered Luftwaffe an inexpensive means with which to intercept and attack Allied heavy bombers using a vertically-launched, semi-expendable machine built of wood and armed with a nose-mounted ‘honeycomb' battery of spin-stabilized air-to-air rockets as well as cannon armament. Launched vertically at 36,000ft per minute, the pilot was expected to fly within range of the enemy bombers, fire his rockets at them, ram another bomber, eject and parachute to the ground.