In Service: April 1945 to 1945
First Flight:
Manufacturer: DWM, Heber AG
Number built: 12,000
Type: Air-to-Air Missiles
Guidance system:
Length: m
Wingspan: m
Diameter: 0.055 m
Weight: 4 kg
Engine: 1 × rocket engine
Maximum speed: 900 km/h
Range: 1,800 m
Warhead: 0.5 kg
Fuze:
Launch Platform: Me
262,
Me 163,
Ba 349
Operators: Luftwaffe
Variants:
Other: Missiles
Articles:
The R4M Orkan Bordrakete (Typhoon or Hurricane) was a air
to air missile. Designed and developed by DWM and Heber AG
in 1944.
The R4M Orkan Bordrakete (Typhoon or Hurricane) was a 55
mm calibre rocket propelled unguided folding fin air to air
missile system design work was begun by DWM at the request
of Kurt Heber this missile was designed as simply as possible
so it could be produced in huge quantities. The missiles make
up is as follows, nose impact fuse, an HA 41 warhead, solid
fuel rocket motor. The R4M was then mounted as auxiliary
armament beneath the wings of the carrier aircraft as a wooden
rack in multiples of six or 12 fitted to each wing. And was
fired at intervals 0.07 seconds at a distance of 1,000 m its
dispersion covered an area of 15 m high by 30 m wide, once
launched the individual fins on the R4M missiles automatically
opened.
Only a small number of aircraft were fitted with R4M
Me
262,
Me 163,
Ba 349
when used operationally, this weapon achieved remarkable results
in March 1945 six
Me
262 armed with the R4M missile system, flying out from
Oberammergau intercepted an enemy bomber formation and reportedly
shot down 14 B-17s. In another mission in April 1945
Me
262 armed with the R4M missile system were reported to
have shot down thirty B-17s at a cost of three
Me
262.
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
