Friday, 8 April 2016

Arado Ar.240 C-2 - Night Fighter variant

Many fighter variants were projected of the Arado Ar.240 but only the Ar.240 C-2 progressed further than the drawing board. One prototype, the Arado Ar.240 V10 (AKA Ar.240 C-2) was flown.

It was flown in the early summer 1943 and was powered by two 1850hp (1750hp for take-off) Daimler-Benz DB 603A-2 12-cylinder liquid cooled engines.

It was armed with four forward firing 20mm MG151 cannons and two backward and downward firing remote-controlled turrets with a pair 13mm MG 131 each of them. It was equipped with a FuG 202 Liechtenstein radar array. No further prototypes were made and the development was discontinued.










Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_240
2. Salamander Books - The Complete book of fighters

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