Engineering:List of rocket-powered aircraft

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|- | Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger || Germany || Air launch || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || Carried by an Arado Ar 234. |- | Avro 720 || UK || CTOL || || 1956 || Project || 0 || Mixed power. |- | Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" || Germany || VTOL || Fighter || 1945 || Production || 36 || Point defence interceptor. Never saw action (debatable footage, seems to show a Ba 349 in combat. ). |- | Bell X-1 || USA || Air launch || Research || 1947 || Prototype || 7 || First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. |- | Bell X-2 || USA || Air launch || Research || 1955 || Prototype || 2 || Supersonic. |- | Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 || USSR || CTOL || Fighter || 1942 || || 9 || |- | Bisnovat 5 || USSR || CTOL || || 1948 || Project || || Based on captured DFS 346. Never flew under power. |- | Cattaneo Magni RR || Italy || CTOL || Research || 1931 || Prototype || || |- | Cheranovsky RP-1 || USSR|| CTOL || Research || 1932 || Prototype || || Test in 1933 ended in engine failure. |- | DFS 194 || Germany || CTOL || Experimental || 1940 || Operational || 1 || Tailless, direct predecessor of Me 163 series. |- | Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket || USA || Air launch || Research || 1953 || Operational || 3 || Supersonic. |- | EZ-Rocket || USA || CTOL || Experimental || 2001 || Prototype || 1 || Rocket-powered variant of Rutan Long-EZ. |- | Focke-Wulf Volksjäger || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || Three rocket-powered variants under construction at the end of hostilities. |- | Hawker P.1072 || UK || CTOL || || 1949 || Prototype || 1 || Mixed power. |- | Heinkel He 112R || Germany || CTOL || Experimental || 1937 || Operational || 1 || Rocket and piston engines. |- | Heinkel He 176 || Germany || CTOL || Research || 1939 || Prototype || 1 || Pioneering liquid-fueled rocket propulsion aircraft. |- | He P.1077 Julia || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || |- | Ju EF.127 Walli || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || |- | Korolyov RP-318 || USSR || CTOL || Research || 1940 || || 1 || |- | Lavochkin La-7R || USSR || CTOL || || 1945 || || 1 || Rocket and piston engines. |- | Lippisch Ente || Germany || CTOL || Research || 1928 || Prototype Opel-RAK program || 1 || First rocket-powered aircraft, part of Opel-RAK program. |- | Lockheed NF-104A || USA || CTOL || Trainer || 1963 || || 3 || Rocket and jet engines. |- | Martin Marietta X-24A || USA || Air launch || Research || 1969 || Prototype || 1 || Lifting body. |- | Martin Marietta X-24B || USA || Air launch || Research || 1973 || Prototype || 1 || Lifting body. |- | Messerschmitt Me 163 || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1941 ||Production || 10 A-subtype
~360 B-subtype || Tailless, B-version saw combat May 1944-May 1945. |- | Messerschmitt Me 263 || Germany || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || || 3 || Also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163. |- | Messerschmitt P.1104 || Germany || Air launch || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || |- | Mitsubishi J8M || Japan || CTOL || Fighter || 1945 || || 7 || Was to have been a licensed Messerschmitt Me 163 but the plans were lost so was only similar. |- | Mizuno Shinryu II || Japan || CTOL || || 1945 || Project || 0 || Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1. |- | North American X-15 || USA || Air launch || Research || 1959 || Operational || 3 || Hypersonic. Later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight. |- | Northrop XP-79 || USA || CTOL || Fighter || 1944 || Prototype || 1 || Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight. |- | Opel RAK.1 || Germany || CTOL || Research || 1929 || Operational || 1 || First purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft, Opel-RAK program. |- | Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor || USA || CTOL || || 1949 || || 2 || Rocket and jet engines. |- | Rikugun Ki-202 || Japan || CTOL || Fighter || 1945 || || 0 || Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage. |- | RRL Mark-III X-racer || USA || CTOL || Racer || 2010 || || 1 || |- | RRL Mark I X-racer || USA || CTOL || Racer || 2006 || || 1 || Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League. |- | Saunders-Roe SR.53 || UK || CTOL || Fighter || 1957 || Prototype || 2 || Jet and rocket power. |- | Saunders-Roe SR.177 || UK || CTOL || Fighter || 1958 || Project || 0 || Jet and rocket power. Development of SR.53. |- | SNCASO Trident || France || CTOL || Experimental || 1953 || Prototype || 8 || Jet and rocket power. |- | SNCASE SE.212 Durandal || France || CTOL || Fighter || 1956 || Prototype || 2 || Mixed power. |- | Sombold So 344 || Germany || Air launch || || 1944 || Project || 0 || bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose. |- | Sukhoi Su-7 || USSR || CTOL || || 1944 || || 1 || Sukhoi Su-6 with rocket and piston engines. |- | Yakovlev Yak-3RD || USSR || CTOL || || 1945 || Prototype || 1 || Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with rocket and piston engines. |- | Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka || Japan || Air launch || Attack || 1945 || Production || || Kamikaze aircraft. |- | Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust || Germany || Air launch || || 1944 || Project || 0 || Towed behind a Messerschmitt Bf 109G. |- | Zeppelin Rammer || Germany || Air launch || Fighter || 1944 || Project || 0 || Designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers. |}

See also

• Zero-length launch
• JATO
• CAM ship