Stuka Variants
Junkers Ju 87B-1
Possible the first 'B' model Stuka to drop bombs in anger , this early aircraft served with the Condor Legion staffel ' Jolanthe'.The unit named after a pig in a Berling comedy was formed by members of one of the first operational Stuka Geschwader , StG 163. |
Ju 87D-1/Trop
Shown carrying a single SC1000 (1000 kg) bomb this aircraft shows the more aerodynamically refined fuselage and cockpit which distinguish the 'D' model Stuka from its predecessors.S7 = KS is marked in the colors of 8 Staffel , Stukageschwader 3 based at Derna in Libya in June 1942 but it was actually the personal aircraft of Oberstleutnant Walther Siegel , the Geschwaderkommodore. |
Pre-production aircraft. | |
Production version 1937. | |
Introduced Jumo 210 supercharged engine. | |
Pre-production series of re-designed Ju 87B. | |
Standard version 1939 introduced 1,200 hp Jumo 211. | |
Improved version available with ski or tropical fits : supplied to Italy , Bulgaria , Hungary and Romania. | |
Anti-ship versions of Ju 87B-1 with provision for drop tanks but armed with only one 260 kg bomb. | |
Carrier version for Graf Zappelin (also recorded as Ju 87T). | |
Introduced revised layout , new canopy and updated 1,410 hp Jumo engine. | |
Glider tug version , used in North Africa. | |
Additional armour plating. | |
Equipped to carry a torpedo. | |
Level attack version : no divebrake but extended wings. | |
Night intruder with no dive brakes , flame-dampened exhausts , night flying equipment and twin 20 mm cannon. | |
Definitive production version of Ju 87D-7. | |
Anti-armour version of Ju 87D-5 armed with twin 37 mm cannon. | |
Ju 87D trainer. |