Hitlers Stealth fighter - Horten 229

The Horten Ho IX V1 was followed in December 1944 by the Junkers Jumo 004-powered Ho IX V2;
Göring believed in the design and ordered a production series of 40 aircraft from Gotha Waggonfabrik with the RLM designation Ho 229
fitted with A brake parachute slowed the aircraft upon landing. The pilot sat on an advanced ejection seat.
Reimar Horten said he mixed charcoal dust in with the wood glue to absorb electromagnetic waves (radar), which he believed could shield the aircraft from detection by British early warning ground-based radar
There are reports that during one of these test flights the Ho IX V2 undertook a simulated "dog-fight" with an Messerschmidt Me 262. It is stated that the Ho IX V2 out performed the Me 262.

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• jets of ww2
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• stealth aircraft
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[trzcinarowice]

To be stealthy it needed more than the special shape. There is a special paint, exhaust itp. German plan was just fast.

[ProzacWater]

@bggtyftygghv In ETO, the US and commonwealth forces were not horse driven, they were in trucks and other machines when they had no fuel, they sat still.

Soviets used trains and trucks to move their troops. The country was too big for armies to move by foot, except in tactical situations. Encircling movements like the Soviets used were strategic and depended on motor transport.

My point I was trying to make is that others here are arguing different versions of their fantasies.

[logorrhea]

@MrSveni40 Mars Production and Logistics win wars and build industrial economies. Wonder weapons (or geegaws) that never get into mass production make nice museum pieces and whatif material. Maybe the Americans knew something the Germans, Japanese and Italians did never realize during the war.

[candr]

@bggtyftygghv Hell even the U.S.used mules until 1956. Be amazed of how much better they are then a carrier under certain conditions LOL.

[bggtyftygghv]

@ProzacWater of course they used horses just like everybody else to transport men artillery and various other things but their blitzkrieg most definitely was a motorised/mechanized war the horses played a logistical role as they did in every other military at the time and of course German soldiers walked no one has ever claimed that their entire military was mechanized or motorised that's the difference between infantry divisions and mechanized/motorised divisions

[ProzacWater]

Nazi military was horse driven. THAT is reality. Their vaunted Blitzkrieg was not a motorized war. It was mostly horse transport. German soldiers WALKED and when they had some fuel, they hopped in a train and then walked out of it and walked the rest of the way.

Horton 229 never flew. It was some drawings.

Horses were real. Why all the comments about science fiction? Read it, it is fun reading, but it is not worth arguing over which guy is better, Darth Vador or Han Solo.

[MarcMicha80]

@MarcMicha80

correct term

The man's name was

 Eugen Sänger

[MarcMicha80]

Luftwaffe 1946 Sänger Orbital Amerika Bomber

watch?v=zTno4cszVGE

something interesting

X-20 - Dyna Soar Prototype (1960er) with Eugene singer Lorion drive

some Heinkel 111 and Do 17 flew successfully until the end of the war with the Lorion engine

[MrSveni40]

German weapons were always the best, early as today. the russians and americans have anything stolen in 1945. see land on the Moon, Rocket by German engineers. The German have lost the war, because there is no resource more. Germany was completely destroyed and now again the No. 1

B-2 is a copy of the Nurflügler. America stole the plans