The Nazi’s ME 163 Komet was a high-speed interceptor designed to stop Allied bombers. But with limited fuel and a landing process that often resulted in death, was it a success or a disaster? This ...

Blazing faster than anything else in the sky, the Me 163 Komet was the world’s first and only operational rocket-powered fighter. It was a marvel of engineering—and a nightmare to fly.

Therefore, the Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane arguably takes the cake as the most fratricidal fighter plane of all time. The Me 163 Komet made her maiden flight ...

One of the few that saw action was the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, the only rocket-powered fighter to enter operational service. The stubby rocket planes were blindingly fast by the standards of ...

The V1 rocket is the most famous example of this, as it laid the groundwork for putting men on the moon. However, we're quite taken with the Me-163 Komet as well. A project of the same ...

Dangerous to Allied bombers as well as the ground crews that maintained it and the pilots that flew it, the tiny Me 163 had an amazing climb rate and top speed thanks to its unique rocket engine ...

Some fundamentally changed combat forever, like the V2 rocket, the first operational ballistic missile, the Me 262, the first fighter jet ... is the Messerschmitt Me 163 "Komet," a rocket powered ...

It takes more than a few mental gymnastics to appreciate the scale of the achievement of the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet rocket ... It's fitting that this rocket fighter is in such close proximity ...