Me 410 B-5 Hornisse

Notes: The Me 410 is very much a single-purpose aircraft. This is the Torpedo carrying B5 variant, and with its 3 dice Torpedo attack line plus great defensive stats, finally gives the Germans a viable torpedo bomber in late war battles.

Note that while the Germans did have several prototypes of this variant flying in 1944, the team feels that completion of development and getting it into full production would have delayed full operational status until 1945.

Aircraft History: The Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse ("Hornet") is a German heavy fighter and Schnellbomber used by the Luftwaffe during World War II. Though essentially an incremental improvement of the Me 210, it had a new wing plan, longer fuselage, and engines of greater power. The changes were significant enough to be designated the Me 410.

Manufacturer: Messerschmitt AG (German pronunciation: [ˈmɛsɐʃmɪt]) was a German share-ownership limited, aircraft manufacturing corporation named after its chief designer Willy Messerschmitt from mid-July 1938 onwards, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, in particular the Bf 109 and Me 262. The company survived in the post-war era, undergoing a number of mergers and changing its name from Messerschmitt to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm before being bought by Deutsche Aerospace (DASA, now part of Airbus) in 1989.

Country: Germany is a Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea beaches. It has over 2 millennia of history. Berlin, its capital, is home to art and nightlife scenes, the Brandenburg Gate and many sites relating to WWII. Munich is known for its Oktoberfest and beer halls, including the 16th-century Hofbräuhaus. Frankfurt, with its skyscrapers, houses the European Central Bank.