In order to meet the deadline for the new requirement, Blohm & Voss developed a radically different design with a conventional tail mounted on a boom extending backwards above the engine exhaust.
In order to meet the deadline for the new requirement, Blohm & Voss drew on the P211 which had meanwhile been rejected for the Volksjäger requirement. It proved a radically different design with a conventional tail mounted on a boom extending backwards above the engine exhaust.