The versions of the FW190 that perhaps (I'm no historian) used these Waffen-Behlter 151/20 are: Fw190 A5U12 (2 prototypes prhaps), A-6/R1, G-3/R1, A7/R1 and A8/R1. R1 means field mod but I highly doubt these installations were carried out without factory installation. R1 (Rstsatz) has no hard and fast rules.
The test bed for these pods was the FW-190A-5/U12 but they found it reduced the aircrafts speed by approx 36mph and obviously made it slower and sluggish. It wasnt actually the weight or aerodynamics they blamed but mainly the engine capacity so thats probably why they put it on the upgraded versions of the fw190 with better engines and more armour. Pilot Gruppenkommandeur Hauptmann Rolf Hermichen from jg11: took down a few bombers with this plane. On 20 February he shot down four B-24s. On 6 March he shot down 3 B-17s and on 8 March again shot down four four-engined bombers in 20 minutes 26 heavy bombers intotal but not all with the pods only the afforementioned.
The FW-190A-5/U12 was flown exclusively by JG11 in July 1943 until it was replaced by the A6 variant in December. Then this pod was used by other squadrons I think.
Anyway here are your juicy pics of the FW-190A-5/U12. The pods are named WB151A and carried MG151/20mms with 130 or 150 rounds. I'm certain it was used in many German aircraft definitely in some BF110 nightfighters and BF109-G4s.
U11 30mm version
For teh skinners Eric Hondt u12!
FW190a8r3 bomber hunter with 30mm pods
