The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 was a German high-speed bad weather and night fighter of the Second World War first prototyped in 1943. The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 was a single or two-seater shoulder-wing cantilever monoplane of mainly wooden construction powered by two Jumo 211 N or two Jumo 211 R 12-cylinder inverted Vee liquid cooled engines providing a top speed of 611 or 630 kmh respectively and a range of 7020 km with drop-tanks. The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 was armed with two forward firing 30 mm MK 108 and two forward firing 20 mm MG 151 cannons in the fuselage sides or alternatively four 30 mm MK 108 or four 20 mm MG 151 cannons. In addition two 30 mm MG 108 fixed forward firing machine-guns were mounted in the fuselage of the night fighter variant. Research Ta 154
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