In
Service: to
First Flight: Manufacturer: Henschel
Number built: 1,900 All variants
Type: Air-to-Air Missiles
Guidance system:
remote control / wire link / television guidance
Length: 3.82 m
Wingspan: 3.1 m
Diameter: 0.47 m
Weight: 980 kg
Engine: 1 ×
Schmidding
109-513 solid fuel rocket engine producing up to 610 kg of thrust
Maximum
speed: 900 km/h
Range: km
Warhead: 295 kg
Fuze:
proximity fuse
Launch Platform:
Do 217,
He 111,
He
177,
Fw 200,
Ju 290 Operators:
Luftwaffe
Variants: Hs
293A Hs 293B
Hs 293C Hs
293D Hs 293E
Hs
293F Hs 293H
Hs 293 H V-1 first experimental variant
Hs 293 H
V-2 this variant used barometric views
Hs 293 H V-3 television guidance was
used on this variant
Hs 293 H V-4 Kakadu proximity fuse was used on this variant
Hs 293 H V-5 this variant was designed to be used with the
Ar
234 jet bomber and
Do 217
Hs 293 H V-6 this variant was also designed to be used with the
Ar
234 jet bomber and
Do 217
Hs 293 H V-7 infrared proximity fuse was used on this variant
Hs 293 H-1a
Other: Missiles Articles:
The Henschel
Hs 293H was a air to air missile Designed and developed by
Henschel
und Sohn in 1939 under the leadership of Dr.-Ing. Herbert
Alois Wagner.
The Henschel Hs 293H was intended to be deployed against
Allied bomber formations.
Continued development of the
Henschel
Hs 293 A-0 airframe led to the development of the Henschel Hs 293H this variant
was intended to be controlled from two aircraft, the parent aircraft, which could
be any of the following aircraft
Do
217,
He 111,
He
177,
Fw 200,
Ju 290 Would launch the
missile and make its escape, and control would be from the much faster and more
manoeuvrable fighter and missile would be detonated in the path of Allied bomber
formations, in which it was hoped that the blast effect would take out several
enemy planes at once. As this missile was intended to function at a much higher
altitude, a new engine had to be designed by
Schmidding
which resulted in the
Schmidding
109-513 solid fuel rocket engine producing up to 610 kg of thrust being used
to power Henschel Hs 293H.
The Designation Hs 293 H-1a was to have bin
the production model but all further design work was abandoned in favour of dedicated
air to air missile systems which have been designed from the ground up.
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 
