Blohm & Voss BV 246
The BV 246 (nickname Hagelkorn ) developed by Blohm & Voss was a remotely steerable glide bomb in World War II that could be dropped from fighter planes at point targets (bridges, ships, etc.). The construction of the BV 246 was kept very simple in order to facilitate mass production.
It had simple aerodynamics and wings with a large aspect ratio for a glide angle of 1:25. The tail unit was initially cross-shaped, in later versions it was H-shaped. When dropped from a height of 10,500 m, a range of 210 km could be achieved. The total mass was 730 kg, of which 435 kg were explosives.
The Reich Aviation Ministry first assigned the designation BV 226, then BV 246 for series production. The test vehicles were the Heinkel He 111 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 F-8.
literature
- Heinz J. Nowarra : The German Air Armament 1933-1945. Part 4, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, ISBN 3-8289-5315-8 , p. 52ff.