Odd Me-262

[B-17engineer]

THe top has a 50mm mauser cannon.
Middle one has cameras.
Bottom has a glasss nose for a bomb aimer. He would lie prone.
From: ENcyclopedia of WWII aircraft

[joy17782]

yeah ive seen that pic before , the 50 mm cannon , wonder how stable of a platform it would have been ? one thing i liked about the germans the had alot of dare in them when it came too thinking , do you think it was a blind alley they were going up on that one , it would have made hamburger out of a b-17 or a tank

[B-17engineer]

Definatley

[Erich]

the Mauser cannon bird has been covered in a previous thread. JV 44 had one and it flew on two known missions against 9th Af B-26's on both missions the heavy silly 5cm cannon jammed

[Konigstiger205]

There are limits to what a fighter can do...especially then...now a fighter can do a lot of things...I wonder how they didn't put an 88 on a plane or did they?...

[joy17782]

a 88mm wouldt the recoil shot the damn plane about 25 feet back ,lol, or do you think maybe someone tried hell i would try

[Denniss]

A 75 mm PaK was the largest they mounted on aircraft but they did some experiments with recoilless guns of larger caliber.

And the 75 mm gave them lots of problems due to the enormous recoil. One Ju 88 P variant and some Hs 129 used this gun.

[comiso90]

Makes me think about the A-10 as a bomber interceptor..

I'd replace the depleated urainium shells with HE or even full metal jacket..

wow... bbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp. flames... next

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[SoD Stitch]

Originally Posted by joy17782

yeah ive seen that pic before , the 50 mm cannon , wonder how stable of a platform it would have been ? one thing i liked about the germans the had alot of dare in them when it came too thinking , do you think it was a blind alley they were going up on that one , it would have made hamburger out of a b-17 or a tank

Watson's Whizzers captured one of the 50 mm Me 262's in Germany in 1945 and flew it to France for water tranportation back to the US onboard the HMS Reaper (along with a lot of other captured aircraft); the pilot said the big cannon barrel sticking out of the front of the plane actually had no noticeable effect on the 262's handling qualities.

The Germans reasoned that a single hit from a 50 mm shell was enough to take down a heavy bomber, even a B-17 or a B-24.