Editing Arado Ar 234 Blitz (section)

===Ar 234C===
[[File:Arado Ar 234C two-view silhouette.png|thumb|right|Two-view silhouette of basic Ar 234C design]]
The Ar 234C was equipped with four lighter ({{cvt|625|kg}} apiece) BMW 003A engines mounted in a pair of twin-engine nacelles based on those from the eighth prototype.<ref name = "forsythbeal 89">Forsyth and Beale 2020, p. 89.</ref> The primary reason for this switch was to free up Junkers Jumo 004s for the Me 262, but it also improved takeoff power to nearly ({{cvt|7040|lbf|order=flip}}). An improved cockpit, with a slightly bulged outline in the upper contour, and integrating a swept-back fairing for the periscope, and a simplified window design with 13 glazed panels reduced to 8. The BMW jet engines improved top speed by about 20% over the B series airframes.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

The C-1 was intended for reconnaissance, the C-2 for bombing, and the C-3 for bombing, ground attack (using anti-personnel bombs) or night fighting (with two additional 20mm MG 151/20s in a forward firing ventral pack).{{Sfn | Munson | 1978 | p =  26}} 

During October 1944, the prototype Ar 234 V19 performed its first flight.<ref name = "bauduin 501">Bauduin 2014, pp. 50-51.</ref> Although an operational test squadron was being prepared, only 14 C-series airframes were completed by the end of the war, with fewer than half having engines. Some were found at the end of the war sitting in the open, complete but for empty engine nacelles.{{efn|Only about 500 BMW 003 jet engines were built,{{Citation needed|reason=Smithsonian link says 3500|date=December 2021}} most of which were assigned to [[Heinkel He 162]] ''Spatz'' emergency fighters}} Flight testing of the new sub-type hadn't started yet when Germany surrendered. Three basic variants of the C-series were planned, with several more laid out as detailed proposals. Some of these would have had a pair of the higher thrust, but {{cvt|950|kg}} heavier [[Heinkel HeS 011]] jet engines, while others were to have swept or "crescent"-type wings.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}