dĺžka: 4,29 m kaliber: 350 mm rozpätie krídel: 2 m štartovacia hmotnosť: 420 kg hmotnosť výbušniny: 23 kg rýchlosť: 210 m/s, pri štarte s pomocnými motormi až 304 m/s dolet: 32 km dostup: 10,7 km
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Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling
In 1941, under the leadership of Dr. Heinrici began the development of this anti-aircraft missile. The project was influenced by the production of aircraft and sliding bombs Hs 293 and its characteristic feature was the proven construction of a mid-plane with arrow wings and tail surfaces built into the cross. The planned access was to be 15 km and the weight of the combat charge 23 kg.
The hull consisted of three parts: In the first part there was a place for a warhead, a propeller-driven generator for powering on-board instruments and a command receiver. In the middle part was a compressed air tank (20.5 MPa), an oxidizer tank (55-60 kg HNO 3), a fuel tank (14 kg Tonka 250 or 11.5 kg kerosene) and a fuel supply control system to maintain a constant speed. A regeneratively cooled combustion chamber with a nozzle was placed in the rear part.
Two types of engines were used in the missile: The more common BMW 109-558 with a self-igniting nitric acid/Tonka 250 combination. The maximum engine thrust (3.63 to 3.73 kN) was maintained for 20-22 s. Then, until a total burning time of 90 s, it had a thrust of 590 N. fuel was controlled by a speedometer so that the rocket moved at a constant speed of 210 m/s. The Walter HWK 109-729 engine (nitric acid/kerosene) was less common. The engine had a thrust of 3.68 kN for 10 seconds, then another 70 N for 590 N. Ignition was performed with a special self-igniting Furanol fuel or a pyrotechnic igniter.
Due to the weight of the rocket 450 kg, it was necessary to use auxiliary starting engines for solid fuels Schmidding 109-553, which for four seconds gave a thrust of 2x 17.2 kN. At the time of the launch of the auxiliary engines, the rocket had a speed of 304.5 m/s. The guidance was initially planned as self-guidance by infrared radiation, but in the end, due to the unfinished development of the necessary equipment, the classic optical guidance had to be approached by the operators.
Due to the simple design, at the beginning of 1945, the development of this missile was the furthest of all similar designs. Therefore, it was the only one approved for series production. By the end of 1945, 70 Schmetterling batteries were to be created from the planned 600 batteries just to protect the western border from air raids. This program was not implemented. The production plants were destroyed and production could not be relocated to Nordhausen. Out of a total of 59 trial shots, 25 were unsuccessful.
Jiří Kroulík, Bedřich Růžička - Vojenské rakety, vydavateľstvo Naše vojsko, Praha, 1985
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Spôsob "deboxingu" rockets and it nabitia (naloženia) on odpaľovaciu ramp "R-Geschütz" (Raketengeschütz R).
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