The Henschel P.75 was an unrealised German design for a fighter aircraft created by

Henschel Henschel & Son () was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicles and weapons. Georg C ...

during World War II. It was meant to be replacement for the

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. It had an unusual canard configuration seen on other fighters like the XP-55 and the J7W1.

Design and Development

Work on the P.75 had begun in 1942 as a replacement for the

. It had a canard configuration with a slightly swept wing and was to be powered by two side-by-side

Daimler-Benz DB 605 The Daimler-Benz DB 605 is a German aircraft engine built during World War II. Developed from the DB 601, the DB 605 was used from 1942 to 1945 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, and the Bf 110 and Me 210C heavy fighters. The DB 610, a pa ...

engines driving

contra-rotating propellers Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers (CRP) coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually a single engine piston powered or turboprop engine to drive a pair of coaxial propellers i ...

in a

pusher configuration In aeronautical and naval engineering, pusher configuration is the term used to describe a drivetrain of air- or watercraft with propulsion device(s) after the engine(s). This is in contrast to the more conventional tractor configuration, wh ...

. Armament was to consist of four nose-

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s were mounted in the nose, and the single pilot would be seated ahead of the engines. Hs P

Specifications (estimated)

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{{Reflist Canard aircraft 1940s German fighter aircraft Pusher aircraft

Design and Development

Specifications (estimated)

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