hw97karbine
Airman 1st Class
- 265
- Mar 23, 2025
The aircraft are fitted with various heavy weapon kits including a pair of MG 151/20 20mm or a single BK 3.7 37mm cannon in a ventral gondola as well as Werfer-Granate 21 rocket tubes under the wings. While the weapons were effective in breaking up US bomber formations and targeting bombers from outside the effective range of their defensive guns, they made already slow and cumbersome aircraft even more sluggish and completely at the mercy of single-engined escorting fighters.
