Many nations of the victorious Allies received captured Me 163 Komets at war's end. The United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France studied the idea of rocket power interceptors and ...

Me 163 Komet – A Short History – Rarely in ... Most of those were among the nearly fifty aircraft captured intact by the British Army at the end of the war, and used in subsequent testing.

It takes more than a few mental gymnastics to appreciate the scale of the achievement of the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet rocket interceptor. Then again, seeing the less-than-stellar-looking example ...

(Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Many nations of the victorious Allies received captured Me 163 Komets at war’s end. The United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France studied the ...