Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Blohm & Voss
- Physical Description
- Doped fabric covering
- Summary
- The Bv 246 Hagelkorn (Hailstone) was a German air-to-surface unpowered missile
- of World War II. It was an experimental guided glide bomb released by a carrier aircraft, usually Heinkel He 111 or Junkers Ju 88, at a distant range. Stability was attained by a gyroscope, while guidance was to be by a radio beam transmitted from the parent aircraft. The high aspect ratio of the wings provided a very large 1:25 gliding angle which permitted a missile release as far as 210 km (130 miles) from the target, with a release altitude of 35,000 ft. The missile was never deployed.
- This wing fabric was removed from the metal core, cement-covered wings of the Smithsonian's Hagelkorn during restoration. The missile and its wings was a gift of the U.S. Naval Supply Center, Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, Virginia.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the U.S. Navy, Naval Supply Center, Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, Va.
- Inventory Number
- A19710759002
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ARMAMENT-Bombs
- Materials
- Uncharacterized Fabric
- Paint
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Folded lengthwise): 289.6 × 25.4 × 10.2cm (9 ft. 6 in. × 10 in. × 4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19710759002
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv92edf19ee-f029-4284-b505-7fef58c1697c
