Junkers Ju 87. What you may not know about the Stuka | SHORT EDIT VERSION | Documentary
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Junkers Ju 87. What you may not know about the Stuka | SHORT EDIT VERSION. Includes commentary by Eric Winkle Brown.
The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") 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).
The aircraft is easily recognizable by its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. Upon the leading edges of its faired main gear legs were mounted ram-air sirens known as Jericho trumpets, which became a propaganda symbol of German air power and of the so-called Blitzkrieg victories of 1939-1942, as well as providing Stuka pilots with audible feedback as to speed. The Stuka's design included several innovations, including automatic pull-up dive brakes under both wings to ensure that the aircraft recovered from its attack dive even if the pilot blacked out from the high g-forces.
The Ju 87 operated with considerable success in close air support and anti-shipping roles during the outbreak of World War II. It led to air assaults in the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Stukas proved critical to the rapid conquest of Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France in 1940. Though sturdy, accurate, and very effective against ground targets, the Stuka was, like many other dive bombers of the period, vulnerable to fighter aircraft. During the Battle of Britain of 1940-1941, its lack of maneuverability, speed, and defensive armament required a heavy fighter escort to operate effectively.
After the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe deployed Stuka units in the Balkans Campaign, the African and the Mediterranean theatres, and in the early stages of the Eastern Front war, where it was used for general ground support, as an effective specialized anti-tank aircraft, and in an anti-shipping role. Once the Luftwaffe lost air superiority, the Stuka became an easy target for enemy fighters, but it continued being produced until 1944 for lack of a better replacement. By 1945 ground-attack versions of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 had largely replaced the Ju 87, but it remained in service until the end of the war in 1945.
The Ju 87's principal designer, Hermann Pohlmann, held the opinion that any dive-bomber design needed to be simple and robust. This led to many technical innovations, such as the retractable undercarriage being discarded in favor of one of the Stuka's distinctive features, it's fixed and "spatted" undercarriage. Pohlmann continued to carry on developing and adding to his ideas and those of Dipl Ing Karl Plauth (Plauth was killed in a flying accident in November 1927) and produced the Ju A 48, which underwent testing on 29 September 1928. The military version of the Ju A 48 was designated the Ju K 47.
General characteristics
Crew: 2
Length: 11.10 m (36 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 13.805 m (45 ft 3.5 in)
Height: 4.01 m (13 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 31.900 m2 (343.37 sq ft)
Airfoil: Göttingen 256
Empty weight: 2,712 kg (5,980 lb)
Empty equipped weight: 2,760 kg (6,090 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4,336 kg (9,560 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Junkers Jumo 211Da V-12 inverted liquid-cooled piston engine, 890 kW (1,200 hp) for take-off
820 kW (1,100 hp) at 1,500 m (4,920 ft)
Propellers: 3-bladed Junkers constant-speed propeller
Performance
Maximum speed: 339.6 km/h (211.0 mph, 183.4 kn) at sea level
383 km/h (238 mph; 207 kn) at 4,087 m (13,410 ft)
Cruise speed: 209 km/h (130 mph, 113 kn) at 4,572 m (15,000 ft)
Range: 595.5 km (370.0 mi, 321.5 nmi) with 500 kg (1,102 lb) bomb
789 km (490 mi; 426 nmi) without bomb load
Rate of climb: 2.3 m/s (450 ft/min)
Time to altitude: 1,000 m (3,281 ft) in 2 minutes
2,000 m (6,562 ft) in 4 minutes 18 seconds
3,716 m (12,190 ft) in 12 minutes
Armament
Guns: 2× 7.92 mm (0.31 in) MG 17 machine gun forward, 1× 7.92 mm (0.31 in) MG 15 machine gun to rear
Bombs: 1× 250 kg (550 lb) bomb beneath the fuselage and 4× 50 kg (110 lb) under-wing.
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@jbradley8659
Жыл бұрын
What is the name of the stuka that had gondolas?
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
@@jbradley8659 Ju-87 D-3
Respect for saying "you may not know about" in your title, and not being like many content creators that assume the viewer is a dunce.
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
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@salvagedb2470
Жыл бұрын
Fuckin Luv'it..Huuuzhaaar!..
@salvagedb2470
Жыл бұрын
@@martinbrode7131 Your about right there.
@KyleCowden
11 ай бұрын
The medevac role was something I definitely didn't know.
I’m so glad there are so many videos w/ Eric Brown , he had so much to say worth hearing.
In 1944, my father was bombed by a Stuka. A curfew was in effect near the village of Kaba due to the Yugoslav partisan attack the previous day. He was 15 years old then, and they went out into the village. Wondering what happened in the night attack? A Stuka with a Hungarian insignia circled the sky. They didn't care about him because he's Hungarian. But suddenly they heard the screeching of the plane! They looked up to see him drop the bombs. They cut themselves to the stomach, but the air pressure still worked. My father's friend was blown meters away by the shock wave and shrapnel went through his wrist. They bandaged the wound and went home, of course without telling the parents. Later it turned out that the brother of my father's friend had put the bombs on the Stuka. Because it was the ground crew. He said that partisans were bombed in the area of Kaba. My father was seen as a partisan.
As a child in the 1960's I actually saw jU 87, jU 88, Boulton Paul Defiant at an airshow, they were on a static display
@vincentiusa
Жыл бұрын
Thats what made me watch this too. Have the conversion ready, but wanted to know more about the inside of the pods. Pretty sure they were never really used though, and I mean ‘pretty’ as in: almost 100%
What caught my attention was at 7:10 thru 7:35, where the wing mounted personnel pods were shown. I have been building plastic model aircraft for over half a century, and I remember seeing this in William Green's iconic work, "Warplanes of the Third Reich," published in 1970. If memory serves, that source said that this Stuka accessory had only reached a one-off, experimental stage, and was never mass-produced, (though the Airmodel company DID mass-produce a vacuform personnel pod conversion in 1/72 for the FROG Ju87D kit in the early1970's.) I realize that Mr. Green's book came out long before German Reunification, when more information locked away in the East finally became available to Western aviation historians, enthusiasts, and model builders. If anyone could point me towards more sources that show production versions of this variant (especially the interior of the pods) in use, I would greatly appreciate it. I actually have the "Airmodel 1/72 Ju87D Stuka Personnel Pod #119" conversion set that's been lying around in my stash since high school, and I'd like to build it, someday . . . . Thanks for making this interesting video!
@PaulP999
3 күн бұрын
In a book by the other great "Bill" - Bill Gunson, past colleague of Green - he has them down as two seat parachute dropped agent pods. (to me the BeeGees are Green and Gunson rather than the band!)
I love these ww2 airplanes... These modern fighter planes don't grasp my interest... But these propeller planes to me are the best and it takes a real pilot with BRASS BALLS to fly them...!!!!
Stukas were such badass looking planes.
Excellent, Sir!
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
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@damienhunt4264
Жыл бұрын
@@Dronescapes appreciate that.
I didn't realise how big they where until stood next to one .
This video is a master piece! Thanks a lot!!!!!
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
thank you Bernardo!
Good video, learned a few things. Never knew about the K-47 or the various tail configurations that were thought of.
I like the animations in this video, well done.
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Tom
Thanks! Good content. I really like the use of historical and animated clips to accurately demonstrate the subject.
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you John
3:41 - AH!!!! Now that makes sense. When I first came across this I thought the entire rear end of the fuselage would rotate 180 degrees around the longitudinal axis. 😄😄
They have to add the super stuka in war thunder 😱😱😱
Thanks for this great video sharing with us 👌👌👍🫶🫶
I've seen the one on display ar the Chicago Museum of science and history. It's supposed to be one of two remaining examples preserved. An impressive aircraft.
@elultimo102
Жыл бұрын
I wondered about that Stuka, since it reportedly fell a couple decades back. There was also a Spitfire hung near it. (I haven't been there since the early '80s).
@johnscarborough4746
Жыл бұрын
@@elultimo102 it's the tropical variant captured in North Africa IIRC. And yes the Spitfire is still hanging next to it.
Here, The Yugoslav Partisans, who were , I guess the only resistance grop to have it's own airforce during the war on it's own liberated territories of the country and used everything from donated British and Soviet planes to anything they captured, had captured a Junkers Ju 87 R-2 when it landed at an airfield thathad been taken by the Partisans. I went of to conduct bombing operations for the months to come, with the last known use was on the 26.May 1945. during the Battle for Odzak, the last battle in Europe.. There is another log dating to 28. May when it bombed German and Cetnik positions who refused to surrender. That was the last use of it in combat. Weird how the plane that was a symbol of terror and destruction at the beginning, and, kinda , started it all, was the same plane to end it... Ofc, with hastily painted Red Stars, while the original markings were still visible beneath (on the pictures). After the war, it was used for some more time and later given to the Technological University in Belgrade and cut up into small pieces. The engine was used to help create socialist Yugoslavia's first air tunnel.
Plenty of Stukas in the English Cannel
Merci .
Impossible to hear the words because of the background music
1930s dive bombers were used by other nations too
Glad theyre not around today, as kids are eating pods.... 😁👍
Stuka (ШТУКА) - on Russian its "valuable or useful item (stuff)"
La traduzione della parola "dive" in "immersione" non credo sia corretta. Io direi "picchiata".
Dobrze że już ich nie ma, szkoda że są nowsze tego typu chujostwa.
Was the Fuckie Wolf 190 named after rapacious wolfs ?
@trevormillar1576
Жыл бұрын
Focke und Wolf was a machine-tool manufacturer before it built aircraft during Ww2; it still exists.
@elultimo102
Жыл бұрын
The FW-190 was one of the best fighters in WW2. I was supposed to be easier to fly, than the allies' planes.
@mohandhanoa4797
Жыл бұрын
@@elultimo102 But did it fuckie wolves ? That is the question ?
@trevormillar1576
Жыл бұрын
The RAF used the information gathered from the FW190 captured intact during the West Malling Incident to develope the Typhoon and Tempest fighters.
The Stuka was useless against Raf fighters spitfires and Hurricanes 8 .303 machine guns they lost alot of them when they bombed England
@roberthuehn6562
Жыл бұрын
Well she was not a fighter-bomber. She was a dive bomber, and in this role she was quiet effective. To fight the spits and hurricanes was the role of the Me109 and Fw190.
@Taka_Yamato
Жыл бұрын
Any slow moving aircraft would be vulnerable to fighters and AA. Take the B-17 for example. As heavily armed as they were they took heavy losses in the early stages of WII from the lack of fighter cover. These aircraft were designed for one purpose and excelled in it but were very poor in speed, and defense, among other areas
@attilakovacs6428
Жыл бұрын
In the book Stuka, Valentin Mikula writes that one of the two Ratas on the Russian front was shot down by one of the Stukas, and then pursued. The Rata is a refugee. This could only happen if the rata pilot was a novice. The Stuka pilot is reckless. 😊
A gdzie polskie tłumaczenie? Brak w zestawie, także automatycznego.
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
I added better ones, try now.
Duri g the 1960ies sonw guys here made "fun" with an old Stuka typhoon to scare people who survived WWII. Itvstopped when someone bashed the crap out of them an detroyed the typhoon. Still wondering who did it😉😉
Stukas were dragged out to bomb bridge at remagen 3/45
Et en français cela donne quoi?
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Subtitles?
@lookup49
Жыл бұрын
Apprend L'anglais.
@hervemuriel6994
Жыл бұрын
@@lookup49 je ne collabore pas, j'aime ma langue natale
One of the best dive bombers built. Too bad it was on the wrong side.
@robertoroberto9798
Жыл бұрын
Not really, it was a slow machine which was poorly armed to defend itself.
All those aircraft "movies" are CGI... lame.
My very least favorite place. Something beyond ugly and soulless.