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 ...

Me 163 Komet – A Short History – Rarely in the history of military aviation has an aircraft been so advanced that its rivals didn’t know how to counter it. Yet, such was the case with the ...

Key Point: The Me 163 was too fast to be a good bomber destroyer. Nazi Germany pursued numerous ambitious and impractical weapon programs over the course of World War II. One of the few that saw ...