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. Here is a list of some of these weapons:
Machine guns
(Maschinengewehr)
Cannons
(Maschinenkanone and related types)
[1] The official designation for MG FF and MG 151 was Maschinengewehr but they are cannons.
Heavy aircraft cannons
(Bordkanone)
- BK 3.7[1]
- BK 5[2]
- BK 7.5 (based on Rheinmetall's 7.5 cm Pak 40 with self-contained twelve-round magazine)[3]
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)
- SC 10
- SC 50
- SC 250
- SC 500
- SC 1000 "Herrmann"
- SC 1800 "Satan"
- SC 2000
- SC 2500 "Max"
- SC 500J
- PD 500
- PD 1000
- SB 1000
- SB 1800
- SB 2500
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
- Ruhrstahl X-4
- Jagdfaust
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