Heinkel P.1079

The Heinkel P.1079, also He P.1079, was a projected German all-weather jet fighter with a V-tail, designed by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in the closing stages of the Second World War. In 1945 the German Air Ministry asked for new jet fighter designs of the kind of the Horten Ho 229 and the Focke-Wulf Ta 183. The initial P.1079A was a V-tail night fighter with 35 degree swept wings and two Heinkel HeS 011 turbojets, a wingspan of 13 metres, a projected top speed of 950 kilometres per hour and four 30 millimetre MK 108 cannon. The second and third designs were flying wings, the P.1079B with a single vertical fin and gull wings and the B-2 a completely tailless version. None was produced, and development ceased at the end of the war. No evidence was found that the last design was submitted to the Air Ministry.