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Henschel Hs117 Schmetterling surface-to-air missile - Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
Henschel Hs117 Schmetterling  -  Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, Germany  -  26 March 2010

WW2 radio-controlled surface-to-air missile powered by a liquid-propellant rocket motor and two solid-propellant boosters.
The Schmetterling (Butterfly) was successfully tested at Peenemünde in May 1944 but only 100 were completed before the war ended.