As a Part Two to the Thread I made about Flying Ramms and Aircraft ramming I thought I would post this too LOL.

This is from Wikipedia,

"The idea of Selbstopfer (self-sacrifice), or suicide duty, was not widely received by German air force authorities, but did appear in several different military programs. Suicide-based programs included “Rammkommandos” (Bf 109G ramming units), Sturmgruppen (Fw 190A crash attack units), “Mistel” (Junkers Mistel 1 units), and “Sonderkommando Elbe” (Me 262A ramming units). In all of these cases, the newest jet aircraft where designed with a secondary purpose of suicide missions, but provided with a means for the pilot to bail out before impact"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_special_attack_aircraft

And this,

"Desperate to inflict massive losses on the American Bomber stream and force a month long bombing pause, the Germans concocted a plan for a massive ramming attack. Late in 1944, Oberst Hans-Joachim Herrman proposed using 800 or so high altitude Bf-109G’s stripped of armor and armament to reduce weight for such an attack. Lightened in this manner, he calculated the planes could reach 36,000 ft well above the American escort fighter’s ceiling. German pilot losses were predicted to be around 300, more or less what was lost in a normal month’s fighting. Aircraft losses would be much higher of course, but by this point numbers of aircraft were not the Luftwaffe’s problem. Trained pilots and especially fuel were. Fully trained fighter pilots were too valuable to be wasted in these attacks, so volunteers were called for from the training units. The first ramming unit, "Sonderkommando Elbe" formed in April 1945 and flew a single mission with 120 aircraft. Its inadequately trained pilots were unable to inflict much damage. Fifteen bombers were rammed but only 8 were destroyed."

http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~josephkennedy/German_Pilot_Perspective.htm

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