German War Files: German Jet Fighters, Jet Bombers, and V Weapons Part 1

Stunning footage of the first combat jet aircraft, the Me 163 and the Messerschmitt 262. Heinkels pioneering efforts and his pre-eminent He-280 are acknowledged, the Komet is shown in flight (scary!), and the A-4 rocket receives plenty of coverage, especially the complex launching procedures. The Me-163A, the most radical aircraft of the war, reached a speed of 623 mph, when released from a bomber. Me-163B pilot Schubert shot down 2 B-17s in one sortie, and some of that gun camera footage is shown. 1400 Me-262s were produced and only 200 served in combat, later in the war than they could have, but those few changed aviation forever. These planes could have been in the air 2 years sooner, but the Luftwaffe envisioned a short war, and these types were not seen as a design or production priority. Hitlers insistence that the plane be a bomber, not a fighter, was not what that kept it from earlier service, but Junckers inability to design the new JU-004 Jumo engines under difficult conditions, e.g., no nickel, chromium, or aluminum. Along with the Wings of the Luftwaffe series, this program, Luftwaffe Nr. 7, is the best Ive seen on Luftwaffe jets.

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[curea229]

I can't imagine being German in 1945, realizing everything was lost despite all the superior technology and grand plans for the future.

[whiff1962]

Bloody, brilliant German technology. This was years ahead of its time. Thanks for the upload!

[nolifemerc]

@curea229 its like beeing rich and you are the last person on the planet.

[Jugenheimeri]

@whiff1962 Their mistake was to invade the soviet union.

[fcbcdl]

Every empire has a begin and its end..

[fared70]

Germans made everything and they all copy their achievement

[ariecbf109]

@ShadrikLOL Could you explain me what is wrong to be antisemite? is it against the law?

[Awsomo666]

@0willsy01 It was the Weimar Republic who fixed Germany's economy with Gustav Stresemann getting rid of the hyperinflation and had got Germany back into the European market. 29 was bad for Germany granted but if it wasn't for Gustav Stresemann Germany would of never seen the path to becoming a superpower.

[fared70]

Every technologies we have now was Hitlers and his team design, American and Russian and others only stole this technology

[fared70]

amazing Germans that time really impressive

[Xiolablu3]

@curea229 This is a bit of a myth that Germany had all the best weapons. Yes they had some brilliant stuff, but all the participants led in some way. Britain had a much safer, but slower jet aircraft. The M262 was put in production in a air of desperation. Had the British allowed the Gloster Meteor to go into service with engines pushed so hard that they caught fire if you throttled up too quickly(!), no doubt they could have pushed the performance too...but they didnt need to.

[gsourze]

Hitler should have waited and devoted more time on technologies like these to use in the German arsenal...