Messerschmitt P.1110

The Messerschmitt P.1110 was a single-seat, high-altitude interceptor design prepared for the Luftwaffe in the last months of the Second World War under the Emergency Fighter Program, which aimed to replace the He 162 Volksjaeger with an aircraft able to deal with high-altitude threats such as the B-29 Superfortress. Submitted in February 1945, its variants used 40 degree swept wings, mostly of wood, and a single Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet. One variant, the Ente or Duck, had a canard layout with the cockpit in the nose. The planned armament was three MK 108 cannon in the nose and perhaps two more in the wings, and the projected top speed was about 1,000 km/h. The Junkers EF 128 was chosen as the official winner of the competition and none of the Messerschmitt designs reached the prototype stage. The P.1111 was developed from the P.1110.