TTD:
Producer: Blohm & Voß Schiffswerft, Abteilung Flugzeugbau, Hamburg-Steinwerder
First test launch: 21 December 1943
Body diameter: 440 mm
Length: 3894 mm
Weight: 218 kg (without the torpedo itself)
Wingspan: 2500 mm
Speed: 87 m/s
Range: 9000 m
Basically, it was not a torpedo, but a glider-carrier of the "classic" LT 950 C torpedo.
This glider was to be launched by the mother aircraft from an altitude of about 2500 m, which would significantly increase the range of the torpedo compared to a conventional launch. About three seconds after the drop, a small parachute or kite was to be deployed, which was attached to the glider by a 25 m slack line. The torpedo was to be stabilized in flight in all three planes by gyroscopic autopilots. After the glider reached a height of about 10 m above the surface, the kite was to contact the water surface to trigger an electrical disconnection between the glider body and the torpedo. It then proceeded along the "normal water route" to the target. As of September 1942, some 54 of these gliders had been test-launched. About 330 of various versions were planned for production, of which about 270 were probably made, of which another 136 were used for further experiments and 34 were assigned to field tests of KG 26.
By the end of the war a total of about 450 L 10s had been produced, but they were never deployed in combat.
Source:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/l10.htm
www.luftwaffen-projekte.de
http://www.rozhlas.cz/wwii/rozhlas/_zprava/165788
Producer: Blohm & Voß Schiffswerft, Abteilung Flugzeugbau, Hamburg-Steinwerder
First test launch: 21 December 1943
Body diameter: 440 mm
Length: 3894 mm
Weight: 218 kg (without the torpedo itself)
Wingspan: 2500 mm
Speed: 87 m/s
Range: 9000 m
Basically, it was not a torpedo, but a glider-carrier of the "classic" LT 950 C torpedo.
This glider was to be launched by the mother aircraft from an altitude of about 2500 m, which would significantly increase the range of the torpedo compared to a conventional launch. About three seconds after the drop, a small parachute or kite was to be deployed, which was attached to the glider by a 25 m slack line. The torpedo was to be stabilized in flight in all three planes by gyroscopic autopilots. After the glider reached a height of about 10 m above the surface, the kite was to contact the water surface to trigger an electrical disconnection between the glider body and the torpedo. It then proceeded along the "normal water route" to the target. As of September 1942, some 54 of these gliders had been test-launched. About 330 of various versions were planned for production, of which about 270 were probably made, of which another 136 were used for further experiments and 34 were assigned to field tests of KG 26.
By the end of the war a total of about 450 L 10s had been produced, but they were never deployed in combat.
Source:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/l10.htm
www.luftwaffen-projekte.de
http://www.rozhlas.cz/wwii/rozhlas/_zprava/165788
