Focke-Wulf Fw 238

The Focke-Wulf Nr. 238 Fernkampfflugzeug, commonly called the Fw 238, was a four-engine strategic bomber developed by Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau AG in the early 1940s that never left the project stage. In March 1941 the Air Ministry asked for a long-range bomber able to carry 5,000 kg of bombs over 15,000 km, the requirement that also produced the Focke-Wulf Ta 400 and the Junkers Ju 390. Focke-Wulf drew up a four-engine aircraft in a trailing configuration, to use four BMW 803 engines of 3,900 PS or the BMW 801, with a pressurised nose cockpit for five or ten crew, a ventral bomb compartment, a twin tail and dorsal and ventral turrets armed with 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon. The designation Fw 238 is a postwar invention by some aviation historians, and the RLM cancelled the development.