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Photograph of the Me 163 Komet on Tarmac. Designed by Alexander Martin Lippisch and was the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft during the Second World War. The Me 163B Komet have the newer HWK 109-509 hot engine, using a hypergolic fuel formula, which added a true fuel of hydrazine hydrate and methanol, designated C-Stoff, that burned with the oxygen-rich exhaust from the T-Stoff, used as the oxidizer for added thrust. This resulted in the significantly modified Me 163B of late 1941.

Two prototypes were followed by thirty Me 163B-0 aircraft armed with two MG 151/20 cannon and some four hundred Me 163B-1s armed with two MK 108 cannon, but which were otherwise similar to the B-0.