 Although never deployed operationally, the system was copied in the US as the Loki, and the USSR as R-103.The Taifun project originally dates to 25 September 1942, when Hermann Göring authorized the start of a number of anti-aircraft projects after a long hiatus when all such advanced development had been frozen by Hitler.Along with the Taifun, the Enzian, Rheintochter, Schmetterling, and Wasserfall were also given full funding.