Blohm & Voss P.194

The Blohm & Voss P.194 was a design for a mixed-power ground-attack aircraft and tactical bomber developed in Germany during World War II. Like some of Richard Vogt's other designs for Blohm & Voss, the P.194 featured an asymmetric layout.

Along with the P.192, P.193, and P.196, the P.194 was one of four designs Blohm & Voss submitted in response to a requirement issued by the RLM in February 1944 for a replacement for the venerable Junkers Ju 87. The basic design of the aircraft echoed that of the BV 141: the crew and weapons carried in a nacelle separate from the main fuselage structure that carried a propeller-driven engine at one end and the empennage at the other, joined together by a common wing. In the P.194, however, a turbojet was to be added at the rear of the cockpit pod and the design intended that the thrust from this engine would help balance the thrust from the propeller. A powerful cluster of guns was to be located in the nose, and a bombload of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) was to be carried in an internal bomb bay in the fuselage. All four Blohm & Voss designs were rejected by the RLM, which instead selected the Messerschmitt Me 262 to fill the tactical bomber role.

Design stages

 * P.194.00-101:version with 16 m (52 ft) wingspan and jet intake under cockpit pod
 * P.194.01-02:version with 15.3 m (50.2 ft) wingspan, bubble canopy and jet intake under cockpit pod
 * P.194.02-01:as above, but with turbojet located beneath cockpit
 * P.194.03-01:as P.194.01-02, but with jet intakes located in the wing roots at the sides of the cockpit pod.