HAUNEBU DISC TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

 

 

HAUNEBU I

Moderately Armed Flight Gyro
Diameter: 24.95 m
Drive: Thule Tachyonator (Triebwerk) 7b
Control: Mag Field Impulser 4
Speed: 4,800 km/h(theoretically up to 17,000 km/h)
Range: Flight time of 18 h
Armament: 2 x 80 mm KSK in rotating turret
4 x MK-108 in body
Armor: Double Victalen
Crew: 8
Hovering capability: 8 minutes
All weather, day and night, capability
Employment fitness: 60%
First flight: 1939
Available for service: 1944

 

HAUNEBU II

Heavily Armed Flight Gyro
Diameter: 26.3m/ 32.0 m Do-Stra
Drive: Thule Tachyonator (Thule Triebwerk) 7c
Control: Mag Field Impulser 4a
Speed: 6,000 km/h (theoretically up to 21,000 km/h)
Armament: 6 x 80 mm KSK in 3 rotating turrets
1 x 110 mm KSK in 1 rotating turret
Armor: Triple Victalen
Crew: 9 (with room for up to 20 people)
Quiet flight: 19 minutes
All weather, day and night, capable
Employment fitness: 100%
First flight: 1942
Available for service: 1944

 

 

 

HAUNEBU III

Heavily Armed Flight Gyro
Diameter: 71 m
Drive: Thule Tachyonator (Thule Triebwerk) 7c plus SM-Levitators
Control: Mag Field Impulser 4a
Speed: 7,000 km/h (theoretically up to 40,000 km/h)
Range: Flight time 7 to 8 weeks
Armament: 4 x 110 mm KSK in 4 rotating turrets (3 lower/1 upper)
10 x 80 mm KSK in rotating turrets plus 6 x MK 108
8 x 50 mm KSK
Armor: Triple Victalen
Crew: 32 (with room for up to 70 people)
Quiet flight: 25 minutes
All weather, day and night, capability
Employment fitness: 100%
First flight: 1945
Available for service: 1945

 

 

 

HAUNEBU IV

Heavily Armed Flight Gyro
Diameter: 120 m
Project only projected for 1946

 

 

 

Thule, SS Military

Technical Branch E-IV

Haunebu

Thule H-Gerät Hauneburg Device, Haunebu I disc aircraft, 1939, 2 produced
Thule Haunebu II disc aircraft 1942, 5 produced

Thule Haunebu II Do-Stra disc aircraft co-produced by Dornier. Do-Stra = DOrnier STRatosphären Flugzeug, 1944, 2 produced
Thule Haunebu III disc aircraft, 1945, 1 produced

Thule Haunebu IV disc aircraft project

(all discs powered by Thule Triebwerk EMG engines)

 

 

The MK 108 30mm cannon. manufactured by Rheinmetall-Borsig for use in aircraft, was also mounted in subsequent versions of Haunebu and Vril disks. It measured 1057 mm in length and weighted 58 kg. Its rate of fire was 650 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 540 m/s. Because of its slow muzzle velocity the cannon was difficult to aim and its range too short. However it proved to be very effective, reliable and easy to manufacture.

 

 

Haunebu II, II-Do-Strata
[Do-Stra = DOrnier-STRAtosphärenflugzeug]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haunebu III aerial shot, probably 1945 - Jagdtiger with Haunebu III in background