Developed to replace the disappointing Me 210, the Hornisse (Hornet) was used to intercept USAAF daylight bomber formations, some variants carrying a 50mm cannon powerful enough to down a B-17 with a single hit.
Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation · GFDL 1.2 · sourceBasic side-by-side comparison of the Me 210 and Me 410 wing planforms, showing the differences between the earlier Me 210 planform that caused serious stability problems, and the Me 410's revised wing planform that proveThe PIPE · CC BY-SA 3.0 · sourceThe Messerchmitt Me 410 "Hornisse" (Werknummer 10018) was originally a Me 410A-1 bomber destroyer version built by Messerschmitt at their Augsburg, Germany, factory and was initially coded SI+KZ. Later it was fitted withSDASM Archives · Public domain · source
