BMW Strahljäger IV

The BMW Strahljäger IV was the largest of the four BMW Strahljäger fighter designs of the Second World War and, like the others, it never went beyond the design stage. It was drawn up in November 1944 by the engineer Huber at EZS, a BMW subsidiary, as part of the company advertising effort for its turbojets. It was larger than the three earlier projects because it was to use the much bigger BMW 018 turbojet, with the Heinkel HeS 011 named as an alternative engine. The engine sat inside the fuselage below the wings and was fed by an intake that ran from the nose past the cockpit in two ducts. The aircraft was to have a retractable tricycle undercarriage and an armament of two 30 mm MK 108 cannons, with a single pilot.