Key Point: The Me 163 was too fast to be a good bomber destroyer. Nazi Germany pursued numerous ambitious and impractical weapon programs over the course of World War II. One of the few that saw ...

Over the course of World War II, the Nazis invented a lot of different weapons to get an upper hand. Some fundamentally changed combat forever, like the V2 rocket, the first operational ballistic ...

Throughout the history of military aviation, there have been many examples of warbirds that were every bit as deadly, if not more so in some cases, to the crews flying... The Germans – their current ...

Dangerous to Allied bombers as well as the ground crews that maintained it and the pilots that flew it, the tiny Me 163 had an amazing climb rate and top speed thanks to its unique rocket engine ...

While Hitler's fanciful ideas about how wars should be fought cost him the war and resulted in millions of unnecessary lives lost, millions of marks were spent on pushing the envelope of aeronautical ...

It takes more than a few mental gymnastics to appreciate the scale of the achievement of the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet rocket interceptor. Then again, seeing the less-than-stellar-looking example at ...

Click to open image viewer. One of the most remarkable of the Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) produced by the Nazi Germany during World War II, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet holds the distinction of ...

The Me-163 Komet was one of Nazi Germany’s most radical aircraft - a rocket-powered interceptor designed to destroy Allied bombers at lightning speed. But in actual combat, did it live up to the hype, ...

Dangerous to Allied bombers as well as the ground crews that maintained it and the pilots that flew it, the tiny Me-163 had an amazing climb rate and top speed thanks to its unique rocket engine ...

Click to open image viewer. One of the most remarkable of the Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) produced by the Nazi Germany during World War II, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet holds the distinction of ...