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The '''Arado E.560''' was a multi-engined [[Arado Flugzeugwerke|Arado]] medium-range jet [[tactical bomber]] proposed during the [[Second World War]].
==History==
The Arado E.560 designs were a development based on the [[Arado 234]], and they share some characteristics with that plane.
Only four designs of E.560 variants have survived; the remaining are unknown. Except for one variants which was propeller-driven, the other three E.560 designs were to have been powered by [[turbojet]]s. They were all equipped with retractable tricycle [[Landing gear|undercarriage]].The E.560, like many other advanced German jet bomber projects, did not progress past the design phase.<ref name="Herwig-Rode">Dieter Herwig & Heinz Rode, ''The Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers 1935–1945''. Midland Counties Publ. {{ISBN|978-1857800920}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/luftwaffe-secret-projects-ground-attack-special-purpose-aircraft/page/101/mode/2up | title=Luftwaffe Secret Projects Ground Attack & Special Purpose Aircraft | date=2003 }}</ref>
==Variants==
All of the Arado E.560 variants had a [[pressurized cabin|pressurized cockpit]] for a crew of two, located at the front end of the fuselage.<ref name="Herwig-Rode"/>
=== Ar E.560 4===
Four-engined bomber project powered by turbojet engines. The wings were [[swept wing|swept back]].
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=== Ar E.560 PTL===
Smaller two-engined bomber project powered by [[turboprop]] engines. It had swept back wings.
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=== Ar E.560 8===
Six-engined bomber project powered by turbojet engines. It had swept back wings.
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=== Ar E.560 11===
Four-engined bomber project powered by turbojet engines. It had swept back wings.
{{Aircraft specs
|ref= Dieter Herwig & Heinz Rode, ''The Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers 1935–1945''. Midland Counties Publ. {{ISBN|978-1857800920}}<!-- reference -->
|prime units?=met<!-- imp or kts first for US aircraft, and UK aircraft pre-metrification,
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|guns= 2 fixed 20 mm [[MG 151]] cannons at the cockpit end and 2 fixed 20 mm MG 151 cannons, as well as a periscope-controlled MG 151 rear-firing cannon with 400 rounds, at the tail end
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==See also==
{{Portal|Aviation}}
{{aircontent|
|related=
|similar aircraft=
*[[Blohm & Voss P 188]]
|lists=
*[[List of German aircraft projects, 1939–45]]
*[[List of jet aircraft of World War II]]
|see also=
}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
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