The Silbervogel (silver bird) was a design for a liquid-propellant rocket-powered sub-orbital bomber produced by Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt in the late 1930s for The Third Reich. It is also known as the Raketenbomber (rocket bomber). It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerikabomber project, which started in the spring of 1942 being focused solely on trans-Atlantic-range piston-engined strategic bombers such as the Messerschmitt Me 264: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/messerschmitt-me-264-low-poly-7ea7f445888e4a00932e78f58f06cd7d and the Junkers Ju 390: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/junkers-ju-390b-seefernaufklarer-low-poly-0b57afee26be401dba295521aaf180f4 the only two airframe types which were actually built and flown for the competition. When Walter Dornberger attempted to create interest in military spaceplanes in the United States after World War II he chose the more diplomatic term antipodal bomber.
I have originaly made it as a part for the “air reskin mod” for Hearts of Iron IV.
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