Author Topic: Jabo is... (Read 392 times)

Nath-BDP · « **on:** November 15, 2000, 08:17:00 PM »

Fighters doing A2G work, not bombers.

Jigster · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2000, 09:53:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Nath-BDP:
Fighters doing A2G work, not bombers.

So therefore a Ju88 is a Jabo.

Heavy fighter variants are, at least.

Ah, to imagine the 88 before they doubled the weight for structure integrity.

German high command was so silly when it came to combat aircraft specifications
...almost as bad as the US and their lack of combined arms doctrine.

funked · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2000, 10:01:00 PM »

The Luftwaffe referred to twin-engine multirole aircraft as Zerstörers.

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Jigster · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2000, 10:36:00 PM »

I was being sarcastic

Midnight · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2000, 02:18:00 PM »

OK, a little research has yielded this explaination: JagdBomber (FighterBomber)

So this looks to me like a German/English word combined and than first two characters from each is used.

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Torque · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2000, 07:23:00 PM »

It's pork!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

juzz · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2000, 07:49:00 PM »

Midnight; the German word for bomber is... bomber.

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Ah, to imagine the 88 before they doubled the weight for structure integrity.

Jigster; what the hell are you talking about?!

Staga · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2000, 08:28:00 AM »

They strenghtened the Ju-88's frame for dive bombing.

Nath-BDP · « **Reply #8 on:** November 22, 2000, 12:08:00 PM »

Junkers also hired 2 Americans to do the 88's metal skin surface, since Junkers didn't know anything about stretching.

juzz · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2000, 04:35:00 PM »

They hardly doubled the weight of the aircraft... it's not like the Ju 88 would have been any more manoueverable if it wasn't modified for divebombing. In fact, if anything it would have had less manoueverability due to structural limitations(what exactly were those handling limits on the short-span models like the A-1?).

Jigster · « **Reply #10 on:** November 26, 2000, 09:09:00 PM »

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Originally posted by juzz:
They hardly doubled the weight of the aircraft... it's not like the Ju 88 would have been any more manoueverable if it wasn't modified for divebombing. In fact, if anything it would have had less manoueverability due to structural limitations(what exactly were those handling limits on the short-span models like the A-1?).

Look for the weight of the first few prototypes before they were ordered to make it capable of dive bombing.

juzz · « **Reply #11 on:** November 26, 2000, 11:01:00 PM »

Ju 88V-3(1st p-type with Jumo 211A): 18,740lb
RLM then requests divebombing capacity in V-4
Ju 88V-6(production p-type): 22,590lb
Ju 88A-1(full internal fuel): 24,471lb
Ju 88A-4(empty): 17,637lb

So unless the V-3 weighed less than maybe 9000lb empty, you are talking out of your arse!