This footage shows ground testing for a German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet during WW2. It was the only operational ...

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Me 163 Komet – A Short History – Rarely in the history of military aviation has an aircraft been so advanced that its rivals didn’t know how to counter it. Yet, such was the case with the ...

Key Point: The Me 163 was too fast to be a good bomber destroyer. Nazi Germany pursued numerous ambitious and impractical weapon programs over the course of World War II. One of the few that saw ...

In the summer of 1944, the Me-163 “Komet” burst into combat - a rocket-powered marvel that could outclimb and outrun anything ...