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English: The German X-4 was a small World War II air-to-air missile that could be fired at heavily armed Allied bombers from a distance. To prevent jamming, guidance was transmitted by wires running between the missile and launch aircraft. Slated for use on the Me 262 jet fighter, the X-4 could also have been fired from such piston-engine aircraft as the Ju 88, Ju 388, and Fw 190, all of which launched test missiles beginning in August 1944.
A BMW 109-548 liquid-fuel rocket engine powered the missile. Ruhrstahl produced 1,000 X-4 airframes in late 1944, but an Allied air raid destroyed the engines and production lines, a blow from which the program never recovered. Nothing is known about the origins of the Smithsonian's artifact except that it came to the NASM in 1971 as part of a U.S. Navy gift of early German and American experimental missiles and glide bombs. |
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| Source | http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19710765000 | ||
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| current | 12:11, 12 December 2010 | | 800 × 308 (63 KB) | Duch (talk | contribs) | Cropped : remove white areas |
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