This WW2 Fighter Jet Is Nuts🤯‼️ ▫️The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph) in level flight. Development of what would become the Me 163 can be traced back to 1937 and the work of the German aeronautical engineer Alexand

Germany's aviation history is a saga of radical innovation. From the world's first operational jet fighter, the Me 262 (1944), reaching 540 mph, to the rocket-powered Me 163 Komet (1944) hitting nearly 700 mph, German engineers pushed physical limits. The interwar period saw secret rearmament through specialized gliders, while the post-war era led to the Eurofighter Typhoon, hitting Mach 2. This legacy of firsts—jets, rockets, and ejection seats—pioneered the aerospace technology that bridges th