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[edit]
(Maschinengewehr)
Autocannon[edit]
(Maschinenkanone and related types)
[1] The official designation for MG FF and MG 151 was Maschinengewehr but they are cannon.
Heavy aircraft cannon[edit]
(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[edit]
- 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[edit]
High explosive[edit]
"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[edit]
"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[edit]
"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[edit]
Prototype only[edit]
- 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[edit]
- List of weapons of World War II Japanese aircraft
- Schräge Musik
- List of Luftwaffe air-dropped ordnance
References[edit]
- ^ "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.