In
Service: 25 August 1943 to 1945
First Flight: 18 December 1940
Manufacturer: Henschel
Number built: 100
Type: Anti-ship Missiles
Guidance system:
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: 30 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 293B 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 293B was intended to be deployed against
Allied shipping.
The Henschel Hs 293B was modified from the
Henschel
Hs 293 A-1 and was designed to operate on a wire link instead of remote control
however the designation Henschel Hs 293B was later dropped as the
Henschel
Hs 293 A-1 were produced to use either system. The Henschel Hs 293B 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 and had wire control bobbins fitted in the
wing tips, 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. Wire link was used to control the conventional ailerons
and an elevator, no rudder was installed since any tendency towards lateral instability
was overridden by the wire link 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 293B was controlled by the operator in the carrier aircraft
using a wire link Dortmund/Duisburg, Dortmund FuG 207 transmitter and the Duisburg
FuG 237 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.
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
sources 
