Estimated performance specs included a maximum speed of 425 miles per hour, a range out to 1,565 miles and a service ceiling up to 41,000 feet.
Recorded dimensions were a length of 7.7 meters, a height of 4.7 meters and a wingspan of 17.5 meters. Construction would have incorporated large amounts of wood due to the shortage of metals across wartime Germany and in an effort to keep the heavy fighter as light as possible.
In terms of armament, the Me 329 would not have disappointed. Its primary battery was to be made up of 4 x 20mm MG 151/20 cannons in the nose (over / under) and 2 x 30mm MK 108 cannons in the wing roots. To protect the aircraft's vulnerable "six" from approaching interceptors there would be a remote-controlled 20mm MG 151/20 at the extreme tail-end of the design and facing aft (aimed by way of periscope by the second crewman). For the ground attack role up to 2,200lb of conventional drop ordnance would be carried, possibly both internally and externally with the latter at presumed underwing hardpoints.
The Me 329 project was reportedly built as a partial wooden mockup to assist in figuring out the internal arrangement of the aircraft's various components while other sources also make mention of a glider form seeing active testing throughout late-1944 / early-1945. In any case, it appears that little came of this Luftwaffe "paper airplane" and little interest followed it as it slowly evolved. As such, the project was terminated before war's end and more pressing matters were addressed by the Messerschmitt concern.
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