Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

by Lynne C. Murphy

Hs-298

65. Hs-298.

The Hs-298 was designed to combat the Allied bomber threat to wartime Germany. This air-to-air missile could be launched from either fighter or bomber aircraft and was in quantity production early in 1945.

It carried 45.4 kilograms (100 pounds) of high explosives that were detonated by proximity fuse when the missile was within 9.1 meters (30 feet) of an enemy airplane.