BMW Strahljäger III

The BMW Strahljäger III was a German jet fighter design of the Second World War that stayed at the design stage. It was drawn up in November 1944 by the engineer Huber at EZS, a BMW subsidiary, as one of several projects meant to demonstrate and advertise the BMW 003 turbojet. The aircraft had a short central fuselage with a single BMW 003 fitted at the rear, fed by an air intake in the nose that ran under the cockpit. Its tail consisted of two separate tail booms, each ending in a single rudder tilted inward, and the armament was two 30 mm MK 103 cannons placed in the forward part of the booms, with their barrels passing through the leading edge of the wing. One pilot was the crew.