WWII German Aircraft Armament

Plastic kit for German aircraft weapons loads, such as bombs and torpedoes during World War II
   100% new molds  

• Scale 1:48
• contains German 50 kg, 250 kg and 500 kg bombs of the types SC and SD including optional Dinort rods, torpedoes with torpedo carriages
• The set can be used in conjunction with many German ICM aircraft from the Second World War era
• contains wetslide images with markings for different bomb types.
• not built, not painted
• Paint and glue not included

Luftwaffe was armed with a large range of weapons of different types and different purposes. The main German bombs of World War II were bombs weighing 50. 250. 500. 1000. 1800 and 2500 kilograms. The most common were high-explosive bombs. They, in turn, were thin-walled, type SC and thick-walled, type SD, and had side detonators. To reduce the depth of penetration into the ground and increase the shock wave, some bombs could be equipped with a ring in the bow. Also, some bombs could have elongated detonators – the so-called Dinort rods * (in German – Dinort-stäbe), which led to a bomb explosion before the bomb itself touches the ground. Bomb carriers were both classic bombers (for example, Ju 88 or He 111), and attack aircraft or fighters, on the suspension of which bombs weighing up to 500 kilograms could be placed. Naval aviation, in addition to bombs, also used torpedoes, using them in various theaters of war – in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic and in the North of Europe.