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Thanks for finding it, hesham, honestly, I was too lazy to search for !   ;)


Completely right about mentioning of sources, Skyblazer. And about the hot-selling status of

WW-II-Luftwaffe projects, too. And that's exactly an accusation against the publishers of that,

formerly quite highly regarded and trustable magazine ! It somehow looks, as if they are trying

to get more customers by including more speculative topics. As mentioned, as long as it still was

the "FliegerRevue Extra" it had a status of a special publication for those seriously interested in

eastern airforces. But this customer base certainly is limited, so the new publisher actually may be

trying to exploit that group of buyers, who are looking for an interesting read, without caring

much about sources, reliability of information and all such blah blah ... Probably most magazines

are sold that way in the newspaper shops in railway stations and the like.

Not to be misunderstood, that's still more or less a worry, but already somewhat confirmed with

the first new issues. Let's see.


About this Mistel being a suicide weapon or not: The Reichenberg Gerät is credited for being armed

with a 38 cm projectile. That would hardly have been a new development, but probably one of those

produced for the German 38 cm SK C/34L/47 gun, as I don't think, there were many others. That

projectile would have weighed around 800 kg then, about the same weight, as the standard V1 war

head. To my opinion, there would have been no way to fly 500 km with this aircraft then after release,

as it certainly would have had to use its engine during cruise, because the Me 262 lower part already

was heavily burdened. And why attack a target with the lower part and then fly away from that alarmed

and probably quite dangerous area, to attack another target in a distance ?


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