Me-163 in Combat - How the Only Rocket Fighter in History Fought the Allies (Part 1) 

From everything I have ever read about the Me-163 it seems like it was a dangerous and difficult plane to master. Looking forward to part 2 !

Took a lot of courage and skill as a German pilot to strap into the comet. RESPECT

Great Quality man. Fantastic. Love the Komet. Subscribed. P38 too...beautiful graphics and storytelling. Chapeau.

Everyone knows red means fast. Painting the rocket plane red was a stroke of genius!

Great vid as always Showtime! Can't wait for the next one!!!!!

Exceeding the mach limit in a slight climb. Now that is nuts and would undoubtedly be annoying for the man closing on his potential kill. An advanced but treacherous aircraft. I look forward to part 2.

I can't get over how well done and realistic these are. And how careful record keeping was back then.

This was a Death Trap. ( And Hardthrasher just released a couple of deep dives into this if anyone wants a deeper dive).

Another excellent video. I can only imagine the bravery of the Luftwaffe pilots manning this volatile aircraft in desperate times. Can't wait to see part 2!

I read the book called Allied Jet killers of world war 2 by Osprey Publishing it’s got a lot of stories of Allied pilots who claimed German Jet kills great video I can’t wait for part 2.

The legend beneath Baron von Munchausen astride a jet - powered flea says : " like a flea, but oho !

Always good stuff on your channel. I understand the redoubtable Eric Winkle Brown flew one after encountering it on a captured German airfield and ordering the aghast ground crew to fuel it up. What a pair he had.

Another excellent video (like the He-162) on a little covered subject. The chemicals, called T-stoff and C-stoff, were unstabale and EXTREMELY corrosive. I read that at least in one case a leak from a ruptured fuel line "literally melted away" a pilot ....

Komets had some success at taking P51 down. August 1944 three komets from Jadgeschwader 400 shot down three P51b from the 352 American fighter group. A common komet landing tactic was to dive at very high speed straight down without power to their airfield after the fuel was gone and circle very close to the field protected by normal fighters and AA guns. More then likely the komet that the pilot counted as a probable got away. The moment could dive and recover at very high speeds unlike the P38 that would suffer compressabilty if they tried a max dive.

Beautiful episode :3 i have paper model of red Me163 and it looks awesome ❤ I can't wait to see next part :3 will be mentioning of many accidents of this airplane?

Hell yah ! I'm on night shift, I have 0.5 hour coffee, time for some Showtime 112.

Excellent as always

I hope in part 2 you show that Comet victory over a Mosquito. The Comets' fuel burn was just coming to its end and a Mosquito was chasing it, but in the dogfight the Mosquito overshot in the turn and the Comet pilot pressed his guns and down went the Mosquito. *From a Comet pilots own account. I think the Comet concept was to use very high altitude as a potential energy source and then glide in and out of bomber formations. And because of its aerodynamic shape it could continue to fly at high speed even in glide mode. Then I am guessing the pilot would use the remaining speed at medium altitude and themals just like a normal glider to again gain altitude. This could go on for many miles radius and it could keep up with the bomber formations.🐞

Excellent presentation

Al Lippisch liked his tail-less designs that looked like flying shovels.

Fire video mate

The 163 swept back wings were designed from the start and were more swept than 262 which wing sweep were incidental to correct CG..

Not many aircraft are powered with a hypogolic fuel that dissolves its pilot and requires wearing a rubber flightsuit to avoid it. Amazingly "Winkle" Brown took one up for a successful powered flight, with the aid of an experienced Luftwaffe ground crew. In fact, I think the only test flight he turned down was to try a flight in a Natter (Adder), the manned surface to air missile intended for disrupting the bomber streams. Post War a number of countries built rocket boosted fighters, some were more rocket booster than anything else. My favourite example(s) was the Saunders Roe SR 53 and SR 177 family. This was under development for both RN and RAF. A conventional jet engine for sustained flight and a controllable powerful liquid fuel motor mounted on top for boost and sprint. The Royal Navy version was to be carrier capable, fuelled with hydrocarbon plus liquid oxygen prepared on the carrier itself. This was thought relatively safe as LOX spillages could be washed down. The RN was already boosting the oxygen content of its torpedo oxidant so had practice. . The Federal German Luftwaffe seriously considered the RAF Saunders Roe as a replacement for its ageing Sabres. As a manned test bed for near space entry the US trialled a F104, with an auxiliary controllable liquid fuel booster at the tail, there must have been other examples.

Fascinating video. Great topic to cover Showtime!

Great work!

Great video !!

Cool video, looking forward to part two!

So that's where the creator of the original Gundam got the idea for the Red Comet....

Excellent Video presentation.

82ND AIRBORNE 2 hours ago?? Still fresh...

The fuel was extremely volatile. There were explosions while refueling.

Reminds me of the book "Rocket Fighter" by Mano Ziegler. He was a 163 pilot. I read it twice, it was good.

"Please government, mein children need books for school." "Sorry there is no money." "We build a machine that can kill a ton of people." "Have this truckload of pure gold, good Sir!"

Very impressive graphics and action!! Thanks again S112

I was suprised, when I watched this movie and saw how many units were using this plane

Awesome video. Thank you.

The Japanese were given the design of the engine and airframe. The Japanese engineers were not too pleased that the rocket ended its fuel in two minutes, making the plane a glider. So, the Japanese prototype was not a copy: it had two engines. When one engine finished the fuel, the pilot could start the second engine, at his choice.

Thanks so much for the video.

This is the one that melted pilots if they took off or landed the wrong way?

Muito bom vídeo e de excelente qualidade. Saudações do Brasil 🇧🇷

the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka was technically also a rocket powered war plane fielded by by Japan against Allied ships..

A great book on the Me163 is "Rocket Fighter" by William Green

Nice video 👍

Thanks!

Brutal!!!! Extraordinario trabajo. Muchas gracias

I aways wondered why they didn´t use catapults to lounch it. Getting of the ground took a lot of fuel, and here was not a lot of that...

It's interesting to talk about this rocket fighter plane that had overtaken 1000 km/h, exactly 1002 km/h. I think in part two you will present the success of this bird which starded to reach the critic mach. At this period of the war, the german tried all the experimentation, 2000 research laboratories worked about new weapons !!! US made the X-15 which is a rocket aircraft but it reached mach 7.

Germans were operating allied fighters no doubt allies knew this and made them potential enemy a/c in certain situations.

Painted red red barron maybe not could be for visual ID for experimental very fast a/c some FW 190Ds were painted red underneath for ID to avoid friendly ground fire when defending 262 airbases

Thanks!

Graat presentation especially about the Red Komet. Didn't know about this one. Great job 👏 and lokking forward to the 2nd part. ♠️🎩🎯🎱🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🔱🌼🏵️🌸💮🏴‍☠️🏹

I miss the Red Storm Rising ones. :(

9 no horizontal stabilizer

Of all the advanced weapons Germany developed during World War II, the _Komet_ has always amazed me the most.

Wow they even sprayed cem trails back then!!!

Questi video sono ottimi e molto informativi. 👍🍀🤩😎✨⭐🤗

This jet was as dangerous to its pilot as to an enemy bomber, if not more so. Its two-part fuel was both highly volatile and extremely corrosive.

The Komet was too fast and very lethal but more dangerous to its own pilot anyways...

Beautiful German superior technology.

Hey man, you are in late 😅😅

Deine Aussprache der deutschen Wörter ist hervorragend, ebenso wie das Video.

was it effective in actual combat?

It was too small. Its larger replacement the Me -263 was seriously great

The insanity is that Me-163 is not only the only rocket figher, but at them same time also the only glide fighter in history to my knowlegde.

Lord Hardthrasher just did a take down of the development of the Me-163. His opinion of its tactical value was, let's say, negative. And hilarious. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_cvyjm9v5WI.htmlsi=YC0WW0QKyuHLGMsw Great video! I just wish I didn't have to wait for part 2

From these images @0:25 and following, the reproduction is wrong, the swastika is missing from the vertical tail. It's important to avoid changing history as we see too often now... Nevertheless, apart from a few small errors (nobody's perfect), it's a great video.

Very brave German pilots! 😎👍🍀💪🐺

14:06 ...🍺🍺🍺👍

Is the footage taken from one of the IL-2 games?

And most likely it was not a kill by the P38...

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Fortunately ,this plane was not a good dogfighter!!!. I dont know all the history about this. I know it was dangerous during a hard landing, because the methanol" was highly explosive if where présent in tanks

supposedly 'game changer' :P

the acid fighter

Wunder translated is Miracle. Ich wunder mich (I wonder if) ob es ein Wunder gescheht. (if a miracle is happening)

I do wonder who those young mechnaics were, making a bit of history that lasted to this day

take this all with a huge pinch of salt

8:22 highly maneuverable but unstable xD sure they saw for less than a second that thing .... propaganda never end .

Which flight simulator is this?

Death trap and acheived very little.

Тупиковый путь развития авиации !

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War thunder good

I think I'm in love with you.

So, your video's are aviation related, but sponsored by a game with tanks?

Development started before the war did so it wasn’t a “late war” design

Great video and it is very informative. However, I advise you not to use fake "gun camera newsreel" shots, as it undermines the authenticity of what you are doing. Everybody is fake nowadays --- you should be the exception.

Wot and f2p game HAHA ..HAHA sorry but it was funny xD even quickybaby suffers with hes secound acc

Sorry. I won't watch censured video.

More dangerous to pilot and crew. Did'nt acheive much.

The worst fighter aircraft ever.

No way he woul keep up.

World of trash as a sponser? So you don‘t check quality 😂

Rocket powered , not jet

USA males and their weird first names

The color scheme is incomplete and historically inaccurate. It's also cowardly to avoid depicting it accurately, because of the desire to please society.

Great work!