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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: juzz on August 08, 2000, 05:35:00 AM
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I need more information on some of the different variants of the Ju 88.
Ju 88A. What did the wooden bomb bay extension look like? How many bombs could be carried with it?
Ju 88C. Which model was the most common for the (daytime) zerstörer role? What was the armament and performance of this model?
Ju 88S. How many, and of which model were made and used?
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Ju 88A. What did the wooden bomb bay extension look like? How many bombs could be carried with it?
No wooden bombay extension for the A, you're speaking of the S.
Ju 88C. Which model was the most common for the (daytime) zerstörer role? What was the armament and performance of this model?
Ju 88C-6c Night-fighter (C was the most common model, however, I only have performance figures for the 6c which was a C-6 with the FuG 220 Lichtenstein SN-2 airborne interception radar to overcome the Window chaff used by the British to mask their bombers in a perviously impenetrable cloud of multiple radar echoes.)
Max speed 307 mph at 17k
Max range 1,230 miles
Max rate of climb at SL 1,772 fpm, climb to 19,685ft in 12 minutes 42 sec.
Armament:
3 MG151/20 with 360 rounds installed as one on the nose and two in the ventral tray, three MG 17 fixed forward firing machine guns with 2,800 rounds in the nose, two 20mm MG 151/20 obliquely upward and forward-firing cannon with 400 rounds in the central fuselage and one 13mm MG 131 trainable rearward-firing machine gun with 750 rounds in the cockpit rear.
Electronic and operational equipment:
Standard communication and navigation equipment, plus a Revi reflector gun sight and FuG 220 Lichtenstein SN-2 airborne interception radar.
The most common day fighter variant of the C was the C-7 which was armed with a 2x 20mm MG FF/M weapon tray. Probably had approximatly the same performance as the C6c.
Ju 88S. How many, and of which model were made and used?
S-1 S-2 S-3 saw service in very few numbers, I don't know how many were made but it was very few, the Ju 88 program was terminated in the summer of 44.
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I believe I saw a picture of one with a 75mm cannon stickin outta the nose (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
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Thats an Me 410
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Do 217 has quite nice armament also (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Reminds me of turreted mosquito a bit.
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I posted this on the WarBirds BBS too:
Ju 88C-4 (Zerstörer)
Same airframe as Ju 88A-4 (WB Ju 88).
Fixed Armament: 3 x MG FF + 3 x MG 81 in nose.
Flexible Armament: 2 x MG 81 in aft cockpit, MG 15 in rear of gondola.
External hardpoints per Ju 88A-4, with option of 2 x WB 81 pods with 6 x MG 81 each. That would give her 18 forward firing guns.
Forward bomb bay was deleted, but aft bomb bay was retained, allowing internal carriage of 10 x SC 50 (50 kg bombs).
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About 75mm guns; there was the Ju 88P series of anti-tank aircraft, supposedly only a few dozen were ever delivered though.
P-1: Based on A-4, with hand-loaded 75mm PaK 40
P-2: Twin BK 3.7 in large gondola
P-3: P-2 with more armour
P-4: single BK 5
Hmmm... I see listed in my book the Ju 88H-2 with SIX MG 151 in the nose - ouch! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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if we ever get nightfighter Ju 88 I hope we can have schrage musik in it! It would be fun to learn to shoot with it and maybe killing few bombers in arena (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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I saw once a photo off a me 109 carrying a ju88 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) using it as bomb.
Am i correct or was this an other type bomber?
if so what version was that.
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322:
I saw once a photo off a me 109 carrying a ju88 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) using it as bomb.
Am i correct or was this an other type bomber?
if so what version was that.
Some old Ju-88 fuselages were trashed like that..
Load it full of TNT and then go trash it into some nice place.
I think I have seen picture of dornier carrying one of those.
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called the mistel composite. Mistel I was a JU 88 A4 controled by a bf109. The mistel III was a ju 88 controled by an fw 190. the Ju had an 8,380 pound shaped charge warhead bolted to the nose of the airframe. Mad for a big bang!
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Originally posted by Fishu:
Some old Ju-88 fuselages were trashed like that..
Load it full of TNT and then go trash it into some nice place.
I think I have seen picture of dornier carrying one of those.
The allies had a simular project called "Project Aphrodite" in which scraped B-17's and B-24's had the top of their canopys cut off and the wings painted white. A camera was fitted in the nose for remote control, and the planes were filled with high explosives (B-17's cared between 14 and 15 thousand pounds of it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/redface.gif))
The scary part was a pilot and copilot flew the flying bomb into France or Germany, where they bailed out the cut away cockpit just before crossing enemy lines. From this point on the plane was controled from a B-24 command ship.
It was used succesfully twice, out of nearly a dozen times, but the poor quality of the video camera and bad whether made it largely ineffective.
Ever heard of "White Winged Death" ? thats it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
- Jig
[This message has been edited by Jigster (edited 08-09-2000).]