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Service: First Flight: 1944
Manufacturer: EMW
Number built: 600
Type: Surface-to-Air Missile
Guidance system:
unguided
Length: 0.189 m
Wingspan: 0.024 m
Diameter:
0.100 m
Weight: 19 kg
Engine: 1 × liquid fueled rocket
motor
Maximum speed: 3,600 km/h
Range: 15 km
Warhead:
2 kg
Fuze: impact fuse
Launch Platform: Mobile
Operators:
Luftwaffe
Variants: EMW Taifun
EMW Taifun F
Other: Missiles Articles:
The EMW
Taifun (Typhoon) was a surface-to-air missile. Designed and developed by
Elektro
Mechanische Werke in 1944 under the leadership of Dipl.-Ing. Klaus
Heinrich Scheufelen.
The EMW Taifun (Typhoon).This weapon was intended
to be deployed against Allied bomber formations. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus
Heinrich Scheufelen had been experimenting with
EMW
Wasserfall (Waterfall) surface-to-air missile system.
The EMW Taifun
(Typhoon) was a cylindrical shaped missile with four stabilising tailfins, the
rocket motor used was 1 × liquid fueled rocket motor, which was fired from
a modified 8.8 cm Flak carriage which would hold up to 30 missiles, there was
no electronic control. It was basically pointed and aimed by the operator. destination
was achieved by several types of contact fuses, the first type was armed simply
by acceleration in the same manner as a gun shell, the second type was far more
ingenious, a condenser was charged by the ionisation of the gas stream and fired
the fuse by discharging through a nose rod contacting the target.
The
EMW Taifun F was the production version and over 600 missiles were completed during
January 1945, however production was interrupted when
EMW
relocated to Mittelwerke in Nordhausen. The EMW Taifun F was not used operationally.
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
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