Messerschmitt Me 210

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Messerschmitt Me 210
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-363-2270-18, France, airplane Me 210.jpg
Me 210 over France
Type: twin-engine destroyer
Design country:

German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire

Manufacturer:

Messerschmitt AG

First flight:

September 2, 1939

Commissioning:

1941

Production time:

1941 to 1944

Number of pieces:

702

The Messerschmitt Me 210 was a two-seat, twin-engine destroyer- class fighter aircraft used by the German Air Force in World War II .

description

The aircraft was planned as the successor to the Messerschmitt Bf 110 . Like these, the first prototype Me 210 V1 also had a double vertical stabilizer at the beginning , but this was replaced by a single large one on all other machines. Due to design errors that could bring the machine into a dangerous flat spin , the already started production after 261 machines had to be stopped and the production of the Bf 110 had to be restarted. 148 copies of the already built aircraft were converted to long fuselages and equipped with engines of the type DB 605 , whereby the problems could be solved. 64 aircraft with a long fuselage (including 12 V models) were created from assemblies, so that a total of 325 Me 210 were built from German production by March 1943. In Hungary, production began in early 1943 and a total of 377 aircraft were produced by July 1944. Thus the total production of the Me 210 is 702 aircraft. As a further development with a modified wing and more powerful engines of the type DB 603 , the Me 410 was put into service from 1943 .

Production numbers

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version use production comment
V pattern Prototypes 12 from Me-210 assemblies
A-1 destroyer 151 short trunk
B-1 spotter 4th short trunk
A-1 destroyer 106 only completed for renovation
A-1 destroyer (148) from conversion with long hull
A-1 destroyer 36 from assemblies with a long body
C-1 spotter 16 from assemblies with a long body
Ca-1 destroyer 105 New building from Hungary
Ca-1 destroyer 272 New building, for the Hungarian Air Force
TOTAL   325 from German production
TOTAL   377 from Hungarian production

Sources: Documents from the Federal Archives / Freiburg Military Archives, holdings RL 3, production programs

Technical specifications

Three-sided view of the Me 210 A
Parameter Me 210 A-1 Me 210 Ca-1
length 12.12 m 12.56 m
span 14.34 m 16.34 m
height 4.28 m 5.21 m
Max. Takeoff mass 10,690 kg 9,705 kg
engine 2 × DB 601 F with 1,350 HP each (approx. 990 kW) 2 × DB 605 B with 1,475 PS (approx. 1,080 kW) takeoff power each
Top speed 538 km / h 580 km / h
Summit height 8,900 m 10,000 m
Range 1,620 km 2,400 km
Armament 2 × 20 mm MG 151/20 in the bow,
2 × 7.92 mm MG 17 in the bow,
2 × 13 mm MG 131 in remote-controlled side mounts		 2 × 20 mm MG 151/20 in the bow,
2 × 7.92 mm MG 17 in the bow,
2 × 13 mm MG 131 in remote-controlled, side mounts,
bomb load up to 1,000 kg

See also

Web links

Commons : Messerschmitt Me 210  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Messerschmitt Me 210. historyofwar.org, March 16, 2007, accessed November 16, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Messerschmitt Me 210. aviastar.org, accessed November 16, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Messerschmitt Me 210 A-1. sepsy.de, accessed on November 16, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Cf. Kenneth Munson: The World War II Aircraft - All Aircraft of the Warring Powers, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 7th edition, (1977), page 191.
  5. ↑ 1000 aircraft Naumann & Göbel Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 256
  6. ↑ Messerschmitt Me 210 high-speed bomber. weltkrieg2.de, accessed on November 16, 2012 .