German training model on how to attack a fliegendes Stachelschwein, 1943/1944.
(Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-657-6304-24)

Watch out for the Guns

The last desperate attempts by the Luftwaffe to stop the Allied bomber streams were exemplified by the demand: fighters, fighters, fighters - quick and simple to build, cheap and from easily accessible materials, small dimensions, superior speed compared to enemy escort fighters and firepower. Nearly all aircraft manufacturers and designers in the Third Reich put designs to paper along these lines. 

Even Dr. Lippisch's ideas during the last year of the war fit into this concept. Of his numerous variants, the Lippisch 13a was actually given serious consideration. This model, the Lippisch DM-1 was the test-bed for the very advanced -but never to be built-supersonic P13a Fighter


Lippisch DM1

The Horten Ho-229 (a part of it ....) being unloaded from a train to US in August 1945.I don't if the aircraft was finished 