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During World War II, the Luftwaffe (German air force) equipped their aircraft with the most modern weaponry available until resources grew scarce later in the war.
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)
- 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 50
- SC 250
- SC 500
- SC 1000 "Hermann"
- SC 1200
- SC 1800 "Satan"
- SC 2000
- SC 2500 "Max"
- SC 500J
- SB 1000
- SB 1800
- SB 2500
Anti-personnel
"Splitterbomben-Dickwandig"' (Shrapnel)
- SD 1
- SD 1 FRZ
- SD 2
- SD 4 HL
- SD 4/HL RS
- SD 9/HL
- SD 10 A
- SD 10 FRZ
- SD 10 C
- SD 15
- SBe 50
- SD 50
- SD 70
- SBe 250
- 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 500 RS
- PC 1000* 'Pol'
- PC 1000 RS
- PC 1400 'Fritz' (starting point for the Fritz X gravity precision-guided munition)
- PC 1600
- PC 1800 RS 'Panther'
- PD 500
- PD 1000
Cluster bombs
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)
- Mauser MG 213
- MK 112
- MK 115
- MK 214A cannon
- SG 116 (Link is to german wikipedia page)
- Ruhrstahl X-4
- Jagdfaust
See also
- List of weapons of World War II Japanese aircraft
- Schräge Musik
- List of Luftwaffe air-dropped ordnance
References
- ^ "DeutscheLuftwaffe.de's German language page for the BK 3,7 autocannon". Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ 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". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
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