Messerschmitt Me 328

Messerschmitt Me 328A-1
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Description
RoleParasite fighter
Crewone, pilot
Dimensions
Length8.63 m27 ft 7 in
Wingspan6.40 m20 ft 6 in
Height2.10 m7 ft
Wing area
Weights
Empty1,840 kg4,056 lb
Loaded2,674kg5,896 lb
Powerplant
Engines2x Argus As 014 pulsejets
Thrust5.9 kN1,320 lbf
Performance
Maximum speed600 km/h375 mph
Range565 km352 miles
Service ceiling9,300 m30,500 ft
Rate of Climb
Armament
GunsNone
various combinations of machine guns
and cannon proposed
BombsNone
attack version was to carry
200 kg (440 lb)


The Messerschmitt Me 328 was originally designed as a parasite fighter to protect Luftwaffe bomber formations during World War II. During its protracted development, a wide variety of other roles were suggested for it. Late in the war, the design was resurrected for consideration as a selbstopfer aircraft, but was judged unsuitable even for this purpose. The tiny fighter was to have been propelled by pulsejets, but the unsuitability of these engines doomed the Me 328 from the start.

The aircraft was designed as Messerschmitt project P.1073 in 1941 and handed over to the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) for development. In late 1943, gliding tests were undertaken, with the Me 328 carried aloft by a Dornier Do 217E or launched from a catapult on the ground. These were followed by powered tests with two Argus As 014 pulsejets, as used on the V1 flying bomb. The extreme vibration created by the pulsejets proved highly detrimental to the Me 328's light wooden airframe, and two prototypes were destroyed by this alone.

Nevertheless, a wide variety of roles were suggested for the aircraft, ranging from a point-defence interceptor, to a U-Boat defence system, to a ground-attack machine. Various modifications to the prototypes were made to evaluate their suitability for these missions, and different engine configurations were trialled. Despite all this, the vibration problem simply could not be overcome and the program was abandoned in early 1944, even as production facilities were being readied to construct the aircraft at the Jacob Schweyer sailplane factory.

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