- An
Erprobungskommando (EKdo) ("Testing-command") was a
variety of
Luftwaffe special-purpose unit
tasked with the
testing of new
aircraft and
weaponry under...
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special units used to test new
aircraft for
combat readiness (as
Erprobungskommando units) and
examples existed that only used the "Kommando" name, such...
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Zirkus Rosarius (also
known as the
Wanderzirkus Rosarius) was an
Erprobungskommando-style
special test unit of the Luftwaffe,
specifically of the Luftwaffe...
- 20 pre-production Ta 152 H-0s were
delivered from
November 1944 to
Erprobungskommando Ta 152 to
service test the aircraft. It was
reported that test pilots...
- test-flown by the
Zirkus Rosarius, or
Rosarius Staffel, the
official Erprobungskommando of the
Luftwaffe High Command, for
combat evaluation at Göttingen...
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Erprobungsgruppe 210 –
initially formed as the
service test unit (
Erprobungskommando) for the
emerging successor to the 110, the Me 210 –
proved that the...
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after he was shot down.
After his convalescence, he was
posted to
Erprobungskommando 262, an
experimental unit
testing the Me 262 jet fighter. He then...
- On 19
April 1944,
Erprobungskommando 262 was
formed at
Lechfeld just
south of Augsburg, as a test unit (Jäger
Erprobungskommando Thierfelder, commanded...
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pilots with the world's
first rocket-powered fighter,
occurred with
Erprobungskommando 16 (Service Test Unit 16, EK 16), led by
Major Wolfgang Späte and...
- the
Russian tanks in the
Eastern Front. This
aircraft was used by
Erprobungskommando 25. The Ju 88 P-3 also used the twin BK 37 guns, and
added further...