The Arado E.500 was a concept for a heavy Zerstörer airplane dating back from 1936. It would've been manned by a crew of four, a pilot, a co-pilot a dorsal turret gunner and a ventral gun station gunner.
It would've featured a twin-boom configuration with high-mounted wings and running through each engine nacelle and spanning across the top of the gondola type fuselage.
Apparently it had an excellent field of view for every member of the crew except for the ventral gunner who would've laid in prone position and would've controlled using remote controls and a periscope for aiming and firing. It was going to be powered by a pair of Daimler-Benz DB.603 engines placed at the extreme aft of the booms and the tail booms weren't joined but were indepents. The ventral turret had two 20mm guns and same goes for the dorsal one.
Only a 1:1 scale model was made and it seems that it was intended to serve as a flying anti-aircraft battery, just like the American Bell YFM-1 Airacuda.
Sources:
1. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_E.500 (translated)
2. http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=664
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ReplyDeleteNow I can set to work and build my Marineflieger Langstreckenzerstorer, wunderbar.
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DeleteActually you need to take your Db603 from the Ar 440 and paste it onto the E500.
ReplyDeleteThe size of th eengine on there is from the mockup and is about the size of a Jumo210.
Perhaps a series showing an A series with Ju211 then 213 which was available before the 603.
That would be some interesting alternate version, and we will take it into account for future projects.
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