Italian Henschel Hs 129 T

Hotte · February 07, 2009, 08:42:14 AM

Here is my work of the last weeks.
A Henschel Hs 129 T (Träger),
as submarine hunter.
For the Italian aircraftcarrier Aquila

Hotte

Hotte · February 07, 2009, 08:44:29 AM

Here are the finished wings.

Hotte

kitnut617 · February 07, 2009, 08:57:18 AM

Interesting conversion Hotte! I've always liked the look of this little aircraft but this puts it into a different light altogether.

sotoolslinger · February 07, 2009, 08:59:04 AM

Very nice

cool looking AC

cthulhu77 · February 07, 2009, 09:00:30 AM

nice job on those wings !

sequoiaranger · February 07, 2009, 09:22:48 AM

Good concept, Hotte!

British subs devastated Italian shipping in the Med, and the cannons of the Hs-129 would make a colander out of a sub....**IF** the plane could get there in time. 'Course, I suppose you will have light bombs or depth charges in addition.

The pic of the fuselage was very dark. I hope you don't mind that I lightened it up a bit to re-post here!

BlackOps · February 07, 2009, 09:29:35 AM

This is a cool project! Really like the look and the idea

Hotte · February 07, 2009, 11:48:08 AM

Quote from: sequoiaranger on February 07, 2009, 09:22:48 AM
Good concept, Hotte!

British subs devastated Italian shipping in the Med, and the cannons of the Hs-129 would make a colander out of a sub....**IF** the plane could get there in time. 'Course, I suppose you will have light bombs or depth charges in addition.

The pic of the fuselage was very dark. I hope you don't mind that I lightened it up a bit to re-post here!

Sorry for the dark pictures !
The Henschel is armed with eight 50 kg of bombs to submarine fight,
in addition their normal armament in the nose.

Hotte

Jostein · February 07, 2009, 11:57:09 AM

Or maybe You would build a Hs 129S (siluranti) version, with aerial torpedo?

GTX · February 07, 2009, 12:03:46 PM

At first I thought it was going to be a turboprop Hs129, but this is ...wow!!!! Can't wait to see the result.

Re armament, something like the SG113 could be interesting too:

regards,

Greg

Sauragnmon · February 07, 2009, 12:27:19 PM

I always loved the Hs-129. Of course, the 129B-3 and other such planes are what gave birth to the infamous A-10.

I wonder, what kind of beefed up radials could you give that monster to deal with the "slower than a pregnant yak" problem?

Random ramblings - Carrier Hs-129 sounds like an awesome idea, looking forward to the final production!

Hotte · February 07, 2009, 12:32:25 PM

Quote from: GTX on February 07, 2009, 12:03:46 PM
At first I thought it was going to be a turboprop Hs129, but this is ...wow!!!! Can't wait to see the result.

Re armament, something like the SG113 could be interesting too:

regards,

Greg

The antenna under nose is also my plan.
The SG 113 armament would be interesting also for submarine fight.

http://hyperscale.com/features/2002/hs129bir_1.htm

Hotte

ChernayaAkula · February 07, 2009, 01:15:23 PM

Cool stuff, Hotte!

noxioux · February 08, 2009, 02:46:23 PM

First time I ever saw one of those. But that's pretty neat

. Is it a derivative of the TA-154, or vice versa, or not at all?

Sauragnmon · February 08, 2009, 07:55:51 PM

not at all, Nox - the Henschel 129 was never even graced by Kurt Tank. It's a mean twin engined ground attack plane... it wasn't very fast, nor was it very agile, but trust me, the later versions, when they hit, you felt it. The recoilless rifles design is one concept, the other being the Hs-129B-3, the pinnacle, where they mounted an auto-loaded 12-round feed 75mm Tank gun from a Panzer IV, the BK-7.5, more than capable of breaking the roof armour on any tank in service during the war. The speed of the plane is what led to Ju-88's being converted into the same role with the BK-7.5, the Ju-88 in this role being given the designation P, for Panzerknacker, or Tank Cracker, which is the nickname the 129B-3 picked up in service.