Horten/Gotha Go. 329 A
Thanks to Matt Hacker for the initial start with the engines and the wings. Everything else, I figured out on my own. You have no idea how much I obsessed over this. The work was incredible. This might just be the most complex work of mine yet.
After the success of the Ho 229 in 1945, the Horten brothers made a few changes and a successor was chosen. Again Gotha was chosen to be the manufacturer, but the men and women of the Imperial Air Service still simply call the 329 the "Horten," or sometimes the "Fledermaus" ("bat"). A fighter armed with two 30mm cannon in the nose area, it has mostly achieved the initial "3 x 1000" requirement set by the RLM in 1945- it can travel nearly a thousand miles before needing to refuel, has a top speed of 620mph and about 2,000 lbs of bombs (at max, can carry two 1,000 lb bombs externally.) In addition to all this, Walter and Reimar Horten improved upon their initial charcoal-sawdust wood glue and have coated the entire aircraft in a radar-absorbing epoxy. RCS tests show a return 50% smaller than that of a Bf-109, a 10% improvement. When flying low and fast, this aircraft, while not invisible, can be very difficult to detect on radar and severely hamper the response time of enemy air defenses. The Kaiserliches Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Air Service) officially adopted the aircraft in 1946 as an air dominance fighter, interceptor, night fighter, and tactical bomber.
More variants coming soon!
Horten/Gotha Go. 329 A
Thanks to Matt Hacker for the initial start with the engines and the wings. Everything else, I figured out on my own. You have no idea how much I obsessed over this. The work was incredible. This might just be the most complex work of mine yet.
After the success of the Ho 229 in 1945, the Horten brothers made a few changes and a successor was chosen. Again Gotha was chosen to be the manufacturer, but the men and women of the Imperial Air Service still simply call the 329 the "Horten," or sometimes the "Fledermaus" ("bat"). A fighter armed with two 30mm cannon in the nose area, it has mostly achieved the initial "3 x 1000" requirement set by the RLM in 1945- it can travel nearly a thousand miles before needing to refuel, has a top speed of 620mph and about 2,000 lbs of bombs (at max, can carry two 1,000 lb bombs externally.) In addition to all this, Walter and Reimar Horten improved upon their initial charcoal-sawdust wood glue and have coated the entire aircraft in a radar-absorbing epoxy. RCS tests show a return 50% smaller than that of a Bf-109, a 10% improvement. When flying low and fast, this aircraft, while not invisible, can be very difficult to detect on radar and severely hamper the response time of enemy air defenses. The Kaiserliches Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Air Service) officially adopted the aircraft in 1946 as an air dominance fighter, interceptor, night fighter, and tactical bomber.
More variants coming soon!