Blohm & Voss' Bizarre Stuka Successor: Blohm & Voss P 192

In this video, we talk about the Blohm & Voss P 192, a proposed dive bomber and ground attacker for the German Luftwaffe midway through World War II. We first talk about German ground attackers and dive bombers early on, with planes like the Dornier Do 17 and Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, and how the evolving war situation, opening of new fronts, and loss of air superiority made the former obsolete and the latter less effective.

We then look at the proposal from Blohm & Voss, a dive bomber with seemingly a set of canard-style wings at the front and a mid-body propeller. We talk about why they may have done this, what benefit it may have had, and what extra use the forward wing sections may have had. We talk about why the design was quickly rejected and how Blohm & Voss came back with a more conventional, yet still odd, proposal in the P 193, with a pusher propeller. We end by talking about the failure of both planes and how Germany probably made the right call in rejecting them.