{"id":12814401,"date":"2026-08-16T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=12814401"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:17:25","slug":"blohm-voss-bv-40-glider-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/blohm-voss-bv-40-glider-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blohm &amp; Voss BV 40: Germany&rsquo;s Engineless Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>By 1943 the arithmetic over Germany had turned against the Luftwaffe. American daylight bomber streams &mdash; the tight, mutually-defending boxes of B-17s and B-24s &mdash; were arriving in numbers that piston fighters could not blunt fast enough. Blohm &amp; Voss offered an answer that inverted almost every assumption of fighter design: an interceptor with no engine at all.<\/p>\r\n<p>The concept was disciplined rather than desperate. Remove the powerplant and you remove weight, cost, fuel, and a large part of the airframe an enemy gunner can aim at. What remained was a tiny, cheap, wooden glider that could be towed to altitude by a single-engined fighter, released above the bomber box, and dived down through it. Speed came from gravity, not horsepower.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><strong>Kurzinfo<\/strong><ul><li>Type: single-seat armoured glider fighter, no engine fitted<\/li><li>Designer: Dr. Ing. Richard Vogt, chief designer at Blohm &amp; Voss<\/li><li>Armament: two 30 mm MK 108 cannon in wing-root pods, 35 rounds per gun<\/li><li>First flight: 6 May 1944; 17 flights flown in total<\/li><li>Built: six prototypes of roughly 20 ordered; programme cancelled 13 August 1944<\/li><li>Combat use: none &mdash; the survivors were destroyed in a B-24 raid on Wenzendorf on 6 October 1944<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The logic of leaving the engine behind<\/h2>\r\n<p>A glider fighter only makes sense if it is genuinely hard to hit and hard to destroy. The BV 40 pursued both. To shrink its frontal cross-section, the pilot did not sit &mdash; he lay prone, flat on his stomach, chin forward over the guns. A centrifuge study had suggested the prone position raised a pilot&rsquo;s g-tolerance, useful for a machine expected to dive and pull hard through a formation.<\/p>\r\n<p>The fuselage was barely 0.7 m wide. With no engine and a wooden airframe using non-strategic materials, the aircraft could in principle be built quickly by unskilled labour. The trade-off was permanent: once released, the BV 40 could not climb and had one, at best two, firing passes before it committed to a glide home. It took off on a jettisonable trolley and landed on a nose skid.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etPfPCTPRIc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Vogt&rsquo;s armoured splinter<\/h2>\r\n<p>Where the BV 40 spent its weight was on protection. The cockpit was a box of flat armour plate, faired over with wood only to cut drag. Front armour ran to 20 mm. Set into the frontal plate was a windscreen of bulletproof glass 120 mm thick &mdash; a slab nearly as deep as a fist.<\/p>\r\n<p>The armour created its own problem &mdash; so much steel deflected the compass that the instrument had to be mounted protruding from the nose and read through mirrors. There was a cost to all this steel, too: as prototypes took shape, Blohm &amp; Voss found the aircraft badly overweight, and early airframes had to be lightened by some 180 kg to fly at all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;In view of the difficulties of a ramming attack, we would like to propose refraining from intentional ramming and sticking to close-range shooting attacks as the task.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Dr. Ing. Richard Vogt<\/strong> &mdash; Chief designer, Blohm &amp; Voss (letter to the Air Ministry, October 1943)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Teeth: two MK 108 cannon<\/h2>\r\n<p>The armament was settled on two 30 mm MK 108 cannon, moved into pods at the wing roots. The MK 108 was a short-barrelled, low-velocity weapon firing a heavy high-explosive shell &mdash; a bomber-killer that needed only a handful of hits. Each gun carried just 35 rounds. The gunsight was simply painted onto the windscreen.<\/p>\r\n<p>One exotic option was a small bomb towed on a long cable, meant to be flown across a bomber so that either the bomb struck it or the cable snagged it. In testing it proved very nearly impossible to use.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1349995955  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/blohm-voss-bv-40-glider-fighter-body1.jpg\" alt=\"Blohm Voss BV 40 glider\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Blohm Voss BV 40 glider. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From ramming to gunnery<\/h2>\r\n<p>The original mission was cruder than shooting. As first proposed, the BV 40 would dive and ram a bomber&rsquo;s tail to bring it down. Vogt himself talked the Air Ministry out of it, arguing that a ramming attack was impractical and not worth the weight of armouring the wings against impact.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is the point where the design sheds its suicidal reputation. It was refined, on the designer&rsquo;s own insistence, into a gun-armed interceptor. By April 1944 the fighter arm had already lost interest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P8ADsWD2KBs\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Six airframes, and then a bomb raid<\/h2>\r\n<p>The first prototype got airborne on 6 May 1944, only to be badly damaged landing weeks later. Across the programme the type made 17 flights and reached about 470 km\/h. It was not enough. The weight-saving had compromised the structure, the ammunition load was tiny, and against Allied escort fighters the engineless glider was helpless once its momentum was spent.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Luftwaffe formally cancelled the BV 40 on 13 August 1944. Six prototypes had been completed of roughly twenty ordered. The airframes were stored in a hangar at Wenzendorf and destroyed when B-24 Liberators bombed the field on 6 October 1944. The BV 40 never met a bomber it was built to kill.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #b71c1c;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;On paper the Bv 40 was easy to make, cheap and well-armed. But the poor performance, lack of a power plant and vulnerability to Allied escort fighters showed that this was a flawed concept.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Plane-Encyclopedia<\/strong> &mdash; aviation history reference<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=572220253  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/blohm-voss-bv-40-glider-fighter-body2.jpg\" alt=\"MK 108 cannon Luftwaffe\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">MK 108 cannon Luftwaffe. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RcurQSowGgE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px\">Sources: Wikipedia (Blohm &amp; Voss BV 40); Plane-Encyclopedia; Dan Sharp.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/heinkel-lerche-vtol-coleopter-ring-wing-fighter\/\">Der Nazi-K\u00e4mpfer, der in einem Ring flog<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/eric-winkle-brown-greatest-test-pilot-487-types\/\">Der Mann, der 487 verschiedene Flugzeuge flog<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fighter with no engine, a pilot lying on his stomach, and armour thick enough to shrug off a bomber&rsquo;s guns. 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