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The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", [b] is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935.The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939–1945).
While the Daimler-Benz engine was mostly used in single-engined and twin-engined fighters, the Jumo engine was primarily used in bombers such as Junkers' own Ju 87 and Ju 88, and Heinkel's H-series examples of the Heinkel He 111 medium bomber. It was the most-produced German aero engine of the war, with almost 70,000 examples completed.
Junkers Ju 87, Stuka, dive-bomber, 1935. Junkers Ju 88, bomber + reconnaissance + night-fighter. Junkers Ju 89, heavy transport, heavy bomber (prototype), 1936. Junkers Ju 90, four-engined airliner, transport developed from Ju 89, 1937. Junkers Ju 160, low wing high speed airliner developed from Ju 60, 1934. Junkers Ju 186, four-engined high ...
The Ju 88C series of standard fighter-bomber versions from the C-2 onwards culminated in the Ju 88 C-6, applying experience acquired with the A-4 bomber, equipped with the same Jumo 211J engines but replacing the "beetle's eye" nose glazing with a smoothly curved all-metal nose, pierced only by the barrels of its forward-firing offensive ...
Junkers Ju 87 - only in Ju 87A; Messerschmitt Bf 109 - only in Bf 109 A-D; Messerschmitt Bf 110 - only in Bf 110 A/B; Messerschmitt Me 262 V1 - only in first test flight, prototype's BMW 003 axial-flow jet engines failed shortly after takeoff, aircraft brought around and back on the nose-mounted Jumo 210's power alone.
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By the time of the Battle of Britain the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka had proved very vulnerable to enemy fighters and needed replacement, so after rejection of the Ju 87F proposal a new dive bomber was designed under the designation Ju 187. The projected aircraft kept some of the features of the earlier Ju 87, such as the inverted gull wing and two man ...
It was mounted on Luftwaffe aircraft such as the Junkers Ju 87 G-1 and G-2; Henschel Hs 129B-2/R3; Messerschmitt Bf 110G-2/R1-3; Junkers Ju 88P-2 or P-3 and others. The cannon could be attached under the wings or the fuselage of the aircraft as self-contained gun pods with 12-round magazines.