In
Service: 25 August 1943 to 1945
First Flight: 18 December 1940
Manufacturer: Henschel
Number built: 1,900 All variants
Type: Anti-ship Missiles
Guidance system:
remote control / wire link
Length: 3.82 m
Wingspan: 3.1
m
Diameter: 0.47 m
Weight: 1,045 kg
Engine: 1
×
Walter
HWK 109-507B liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to 590 kg of thrust
Maximum speed: 435 km/h
Range: 12 km
Warhead: 295
kg
Fuze: impact fuse
Launch Platform:
Do 217,
He 111,
He
177,
Fw 200,
Ju 290 Operators:
Luftwaffe
Variants: Hs 293A
Hs 293 A-0
Hs 293 A-1
Hs 293 A-2
Hs 293B
Hs 293C Hs
293D Hs 293E
Hs
293F Hs 293H
Other: Missiles Articles:
The Henschel
Hs 293A was a anti-ship missile Designed and developed by
Henschel
und Sohn in 1939 under the leadership of Dr.-Ing. Herbert
Alois Wagner.
The Henschel Hs 293A was intended to be deployed against
Allied shipping.
The Henschel Hs 293 A-1 had a standard
SC
500 bomb fastened to the front of the fuselage. The fuselage contained control
equipment, with a pair of straight stubby wings attached in the middle, and a
tailplane mounted above the wake of the wing. At the point where the tailplane
was fastened. The fuselage was flattened to form a low aspect ratio ventral and
dorsal fins. The whole construction was made out of duralumin. Radio control was
used to control the conventional ailerons and an elevator, no rudder was installed
since any tendency towards lateral instability was overridden by the remote control.
The rocket motor used was 1 ×
Walter
HWK 109-507B liquid fuel rocket engine producing up to 590 kg of thrust, alternatively
the
BMW 109-511 liquid
fuel rocket engine producing up to 600 kg or
WASAG
109-512 solid fuel rocket engine producing up to 1,200 kg of thrust could
be used. The Henschel Hs 293 A-1 was controlled by the operator in the carrier
aircraft using a radiolink Kehl-Straßburg (designed and developed by Telefunken)
Kehl FuG 203 transmitter and the Straßburg FuG 230 receiver, the operator
had to keep the target in sight at all times, to aid the operator in this a flare
was ignited in the tail of the bomb so it could be seen from the carrier aircraft.
Production of the Henschel Hs 293 A-1 began in January 1942
The Henschel
Hs 293 A-1 was used on the 25 August 1943. Operationally by KG 100 based at Cognac
using
Do 217 attacking targets
in the Bay of Biscay.
The Warplanes
of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822
German Aircraft of the Second
World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242
Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X
For a complete list of
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