List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War II
In World War II, the Luftwaffe (German air force), used a variety of weapons to keep their aircraft equipped with the most modern weaponry available at that time, until later in the war when resources got thin.
Machine guns
(Maschinengewehr)
Autocannon
(Maschinenkanone and related types)
[1] The official designation for MG FF and MG 151 was Maschinengewehr but they are cannon.
Heavy aircraft cannon
(Bordkanone)
Rockets and Missiles
- Kramer Rk 344, air-to-air missile (liquid-fuel, rocket-powered)
- Henschel Hs 293, guided anti-ship, boost-glide missile
- R4M rocket
- Werfer-Granate 21 heavy-calibre air-to-air unguided rocket
Bombs
High explosive
"Sprengcylindrisch"' (high-explosive)
Anti-personnel
"Splitterbomben-Dickwandig"' (Shrapnel)
- SD 1
- SD 2
- SD 4/HL
- SD 4/HL RS
- SD 9/HL
- SD 10 A
- SD 50
- SD 70
- SD 250
- SD 500
- SD 1400 "Esau"
- SD 1700 "Sigismund"
- SD 500A
- SD 500E
Armour-piercing
"Panzersprengbombe-Cylindrisch" (Armor-piercing bombs)
- PC 500* 'Pauline'
- PC 1000* 'Pol'
- PC 1400 'Fritz' (starting point for the Fritz X gravity precision-guided munition)
- PC 1600
- PC 1800 RS 'Panther'
Prototype only
- the Düsenkanone 88 rotary-magazine heavy calibre cannon, meant to largely be recoilless[4]
- Henschel Hs 298, air-to-air missile (rocket-powered)
- MK 115
- SG 116 (Link is to german wikipedia page)
- Ruhrstahl X-4
- Jagdfaust
See also
References
- ↑ DeutscheLuftwaffe.de's German language page for the BK 3,7 autocannon
- ↑ DeutscheLuftwaffe.de's German language page for the BK 5 autocannon Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ DeutscheLuftwaffe.de's German language page for the BK 7,5 autocannon Archived 2016-05-17 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ DeutscheLuftwaffe.de's German language page on the Ju 88/"Düka 88" weapons system
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