In 1943, the chief of the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), Hermann Göring, allocated half-a-million Reich Marks to the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten to build and fly several prototypes of the ...

Key Points and Summary - The Horten Ho 229 was a German flying-wing jet prototype developed in the final days of World War II. National Security Journal was given a guided tour of the plane's remains ...

Click to open image viewer. In 1943 the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 ('aitch-oh-two-two-nine') promised spectacular performance and the German air force (Luftwaffe) chief, Hermann Göring, ...

Key point: The Ho 229 was very innovative, but was still a far way from today’s technology. Northrop Grumman revealed this year it is developing a second flying wing stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, ...

Key point: Berlin invented many wonder weapons, but not all of them were successful. In fact, these expensive projects maybe hurt the Nazis’ chances of winning the war. Northrop Grumman revealed this ...