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Focke-Wulf Fw 500 single seat heavy fighter "Kugelblitz" (hypothetical)
I would like to remind the viewers that this is a fictional work
Overview:
Thinking that the claimed rotating sickles were possibly the airscrew
blades of a large  turbo-prop engine housed in central position under
the highly armoured cockpit/canopy, with two air-intakes, this all-wing
V.T.O.L. aircraft possibly could fly like a "HARRIER" and/or a
helicopter in any directions or stopping in the middle of the air.
Exhaust could be deflected from the central orientable nozzle under the
disk  to the orientable nozzles on the airscrew rotating  ring  getting
a higher rotation speed, like a blazing circular saw. This could conceivable
saw enemy bombers!

Hypothetical armament:
six  Mauser MG 213 air-to-air revolver cannons (you know, the newest in
'45,  20-mm rounds with a muzzle velocity of 3,300 feet per second and
at a rate of 1,200 per minute); four 8-1/4 inches R100BS incendiary
shrapnel air-to-air rockets and OBERON automatic firing system.

Hypothetical camouflage scheme:
a V.T.O.L. aircraft like this could  have  a multi-role  operational
service (interceptor, tank destroyer, intruder) taking off from shelters
in the wood near a highway (the Berlin-Hamburg near Neu-Ruppin ?), so I
think  that an - 81 braunviolett / 83 hellgrün / 76 grau or 84
himmelgrün -  scheme could  be correct.

Possibly, an aircraft like this, delivered for the first time on May 7,
1946, to the new, volunteers based,  JagdVerband 500 (from the factory
fighter type-number) ,  purposely  wanted by Adolf Galland  in person,
does not need  of  home defense bands: it was quite recognizable by the
Flak!
                                                           Daniele Sabatini / Italy