The Focke-Wulf Super Lorin was a proposed

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jet interceptor project. Designed towards the end of

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by engineer Heinz von Halen, the project remained only a factory design exercise, and never received an RLM airframe number before the

surrender of Nazi Germany The German Instrument of Surrender (german: Bedingungslose Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, lit=Unconditional Capitulation of the "Wehrmacht"; russian: Акт о капитуляции Германии, Akt o kapitulyatsii Germanii, lit=Act of capit ...

.Ernst Heinrich Hirschel, Horst Prem, Gero Madelung et al. ''Aeronautical Research in Germany: From Lilienthal Until Today,'' Volume 147

Development

Little is known about this project apart from brief mention in surviving documents; it was designed around the same time as the

Focke-Wulf Ta 283 The Focke-Wulf Strahlrohrjager was a German swept wing, ramjet-powered interceptor aircraft proposal during World War II. The project was proposed at the same time as the Focke-Wulf Super Lorin and remained only a design study until the surrend ...

. The Super Lorin was based on the

Focke-Wulf Ta 183 The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 ''Huckebein'' was a design for a jet-powered fighter aircraft intended as the successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 and other day fighters in Luftwaffe service during World War II. It had been developed only to the exten ...

, with similar mid-

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positioned wings swept at 45°. The aircraft would have a

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of 7.6 m and a length of 11.6 m. Power was to be provided by a fuselage-mounted

rocket engine A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket engines are reaction engines, producing thrust by ejecting mass rearward, in accorda ...

and small

turbojet The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, a ...

for takeoff; two Lorin

ramjet A ramjet, or athodyd (aero thermodynamic duct), is a form of airbreathing jet engine that uses the forward motion of the engine to produce thrust. Since it produces no thrust when stationary (no ram air) ramjet-powered vehicles require an ass ...

s located on the tips of the sharply swept

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would be used for cruising. The rocket and turbojet would provide enough initial

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to start the ramjet engines which cannot produce thrust at zero or low

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. Armament was to have been two 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 108 cannon.

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