By 1944, the war had taken a sharp turn for the axis forces after three years of military dominance. They were not only severely depleted in strategic resources but also facing an overwhelming Allied offensive in all the theaters of World War 2.
As the Allies threatened to achieve complete aerial supremacy over Europe, Germany’s high command opted to halt the production of bombers and large aircraft to concentrate on developing state-of-the-art jet fighters.
But the legendary German engineering would not be enough to give the Axis the upper hand this time. The Allies had caught up with their aviation industry, and the Germans panicked when they learned their enemies were about to deploy the British Gloster Meteor jet-powered airplane.
In response, the Luftwaffe clung to its hopes of developing the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein, a groundbreaking jet fighter that would replace the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet warplane in the world.
Still, as the Allies drove ever closer to Berlin and the last steel and aluminum stockpiles were exhausted, the Germans continued their desperate attempt to build the aircraft, hoping that they could repel the Allies as they made their final push towards the Führerbunker. And if they had to use wood to complete the project, that’s how it would be…
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Now we know where Russian mig concept came from.
Heard of it
Any similarity with the Russian Mig-15 is pure coincidence😂
Looks like a fat mig 15 we could all be speaking German if a few mistakes weren't made
It reminds me of the Saunders-Roe 177 fighter that never went into production. Maybe it was influenced by the Kurt Tank design? Although the TA183 was designed by one of his teams led by Hans Multhopp.
That thumbnail looked like it could be a character in Cars or something, but a plane… Contrasted with the title line – of course the nazis made smiley planes, wtf didn't they make? According to a quick generic search of the term "History", history is 80% stuff the nazis tried to build.
um… no, the Pulqui II wasnt a nazi fighter jet, it was ARGENTINIAN, Kurt Tank helped with the desing
two teams were created to design a new jet plane, one German led by Kurk Tank and another Argentine led by Norberto Morchio, in the end it was decided to "unify" the two designs (which were very similar) and from there came the Pulqui II
only 5 prototypes were made: Nº1 didnt even had a engine, it never flew and it was destroyed on purpose in a test.
Nº2 was the first one having an engine, it had multiple failures, it wasnt stable when flying at high speeds and on its last flight it crashed because a wing came loose, thus killing his pilot.
Nº3 had aerodynamic improvements to make it more stable, it crashed killing the pilot
Nº4 was the first one having guns and a pressurized cabin, in 1956 it flew from Cordoba and Buenos Aires and back without being refueled, it opened fired on a test field while flying, the oxygen equipment it had was taken from a Gloster Meteor which was undergoing repairs, it failed and forced the pilot to make an emergency landing, critically damaging the plane, but the pilot survived
Nº5 the last Pulqui II produced ever and the only one that is still in one piece today, it was a modified version that had external fuel tanks that solved the problem of poor autonomy. This prototype received the designation Pulqui IIe It only made twelve flights before being retired.
none of them saw combat
I think the biggest issue with the thin wooden wings isn't even enemy fire, it's the strength in turns or any oscillations from transsonic flight.
Use to fly the sims ,the Huckebein was one of the simulation , the ME 262 was a delight to fly ,there was a crazy rocket plane too ,can't remember much about it ,it was tested by a female test pilot . The Mig and Sabre were both highly influenced by the Huckebein ,the Mig was really a great fly ,had smarter air brakes than the Sabre ,but in combat the Sabre had the edge , very difficult to land ,because of the speed and second rate air brakes.
rumour has it Hitler had one named the "Jewdicator" hidden in a secret hangar with bunker and vault along an unknown mountainside.
Yes, undoubtedly the mig 15 looks very much like this old nazi crow. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw your video.
Suspiciously looks like the first fighters Russia and US developed, AFTER this was invented of course.
Oh, the Ta-183 – I thought it was going to be a plane new to me… all good, and well put together…
Luckily, myths of Nazi efficiency were just that.
Rusians copy….to mig-15
Looks an awful lot like the Saab 29 Tunnan, with the short fat barrel with a cockpit stuck on it look. EDIT I see others say this below!
Ive heard of it.
Its called the MiG-15.
"Kurt Tank"…Best name ever.
Why did every British version of something always look 5X clunkier, and poorly made?
Meteor, Bren, Sten, Churchill, Cromwell……Their only beautiful weapon was the Spitfire.
Duh. It’s the Russian Mig 15. The Russians stole as much new German technology they could.If the WW 2 had gone one for 10 or 12 months more B-17s B-24s and possibly B-29s would have dropped from German skies like Flys. It would have been a Blood Bath.
Fukin Lyin Ron De Satan's ad interrupted my enjoyment of this wonderful presentation. Ronny Boy, in 2020, who told OPEC to cut oil production to protect profits of American Oil?
How about the Saab 29. Lovely resemblance?
Pleasen do the p15B
The reason Germany 'lost the War' is because Hitler became too maudlin and weak towards England
Instead of ordering the Luftwaffe to 'Incinerate London' and if that could not be done, "Burn Paris into the ground and every man/woman/and child along with it…bayonet every child and infant on film and send it to Churchill and Roosevelt as evidence and then we will find-out just whose will is stronger"
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The time to destroy bombers is when they are ON THE GROUND and not attacking your Cities full of civilians!
( Why Hitler allowed himself to weaken is a mystery, considering the program of extermination of Jews and others was proceeding as quickly as possible )
Since the Western Allies had decided to 'destroy Germany altogether' from the air, with no distinctions whatever of 'Who is Guilty?' then why not respond in kind?
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Advanced aircraft mean NOTHING if they are not used properly, and the way to use them was to ATTACK HELPLESS CIVILIANS just as England and America did to Germany!
usa copied this design with its first jets, no one knew. great video
MK means Maschinenkanone. "Mark" is a british thing .
I don’t watch the video but I’m sure he means the ME or the Horten
Ordnance, not ordinance. Come on!
A very dull, dry and mechanical narrator. Otherwise good and interesting!
The T 183 was copied by the Swedish SAAB manufacturer when they, after the war, built the "flying barrel" ("Flygande tunnan" in swedish)
At 9:34 it looks like Hitler 3rd from right.
Almost won wwll
Kurt Tank actually collaborated in the construction of three prototypes, called Pulki 1, Pulqui 2 and Pulki 3, the latter which was not built in Argentina, Kurt escaped to India due to the liberating revolution and there he built it under the name of Maruti, a twin-reactor destined for Argentina but that stayed in India.
Thank you for an unbiased, and semingly factful insight to an aircraft, as an aviation enthusiast was unaware of. Please keep up this good work.
…..Socialists fighting world communism……& the rest is history….now the world can welcome communism.
….not just aircraft,….the worlds technology derives from Germany & some other European Countries.
Cool !
I have "never heard of"? You assume too much. I had heard of it 50 years ago because I am very keen on such things and have a good reference library on aircraft. I built a Centuri Mach 10 free-flight (after rocket launch) solid fuel model rocket in 1972 that was loosely based on the Ta-183
I always used to wonder about those Korean War era jets…
Apparently, it was as I always suspected.
No wonder the 183 has been "hushed up".
Thank you very much for this video.
The Me-163 was the fastest jet in WW2
How naive can one be. I always thought that the huge bulk of nazi mad scientists were employed by the USA. Now you prove me wrong. Ok. And
you statePulqui II have seen real action…ok, ok.It looks like Argentina's Pulqui II–oh wait. As I am typing this he's now talking about the Argentinian connection.
07:49 on the video of the Soviet mig-15
An American officer, collecting weapons after the war, was told by a German crew that they could change the engine on a 262 in half an hour, even in the field, if needed! So the low endurance wasn't a problem, only spares. I wonder how long it took to change an engine on a Meteor? And Kurt Tank was the most gifted designer of the war, making some of the best functioning fighters, FW190/TA152, but luckily at that time Germany had neigther pilots left nor the fuel. If a Lockheed Lightning had met top German pilots on an equal level, it wouldn't stand a chance, so the "Forktailed Devil" is a later myth made by Americans. Only the fact that it could fly and the Germans couldn't, made it a threat
The bird that was originally slated to replace the Me-262 was the Horton Ho-229/A3.
The 183 did look an awful lot like our f-86 and the mig 15 !!!