Built to shred RAF heavy bombers with radar and heavy cannon, the He 219 Uhu looked like the answer to Germany’s night war. This episode reveals how politics, petty rivalries, and production chaos ...
–two × 20 mm (0.787 in) MG 151/20 cannons in a detachable fairing under the fuselage, 300 rounds per gun (rpg) –two × 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons in wing roots, 300 rpg –two × 30 mm (1.181 in) MK 108 ...
Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center can see the restored Heinkel He 219—unassembled, but still awe-inspiring. In 2012, Danish divers pulled the badly corroded ...