Focke-Wulf Fw200 Condor - Part 3. German Dzib -Compiler-

Postwar use

Two MG 151/20 cannon fitted to a Finnish TorKK MG-151 2 anti-aircraft mounting. Cannons of Torp museum (2011)
After World War 2, numbers of ex-Luftwaffe MG 151/20 cannon were removed from inventory and from scrapped aircraft and used by various nations in their own aircraft. The French Air Force and French Army aviation arm (ALAT) utilized MG 151/20 cannon as both fixed and flexible armament in various aircraft, including helicopters. The FAF and ALAT jointly developed a rubber-insulated flexible mount for the MG 151/20 for use as a door gun, which was later used in combat in Algeria aboard several FAF/ALAT H-21C assault transport helicopters and on Sikorsky HSS-1 Pirate gunship helicopters. French Matra MG 151 20mm cannons were used by Portugal and Rhodesia(21) fitted to their Alouette III helicopters, while Denel designed its own variant for the South African Air Force.(22)

MG 151 specifications

• Type: single-barrel automatic cannon
• Caliber: 15×96mm
• Operation: Recoil-operated; short recoil
• Length: 1916 mm
• Barrel length: 1254 mm
• Rifling: 8 grooves, right hand twist, 1 turn in 16"
• Weight (complete): 38.1 kg (84 lb)
• Rate of fire: 740 rpm
• Effective range: 1000 m
• Muzzle velocity: 850 m/s (AP-T); 960 m/s (HE-T, HEI-T); 1030 m/s AP(WC)
• Projectile types:
                       AP-T weighing 72 g
                       HE weighing 57 g. HE filler: 2.8 g
                       AP(WC) weighing 52 g

Airframes plants report No 5 Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG, Bremen in Germany - 1944

Inside the document you will find information of planned production in Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH in Bremen, for the 1943 and planned for the years 1944-1945. Data on employment, data on management, on the damage done by raids of Allied bombers, etc.
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Aerial Verticl view of Bremen area showing Focke-Wulf aircraft plants during attack on 17-04-1943

Aerial view of Bremen area showing Focke-Wulf aircraft plants on 1 September 1944

Beauty under the Sky - Ta152. Part 1 - The Begining

Kurt Tank

Backround

From beginning of  British government held talks with the US government, bout joint military action by air (after joining the war) having the target - inflict heavy losses for armaments industry of the Third Reich. The Reich situation clearly deteriorated precisely from the moment when the British bomber fleet (operating mostly at night) joined by two US Air fleet. Yankees have started massive daily raids on the territory of the Reich. By 1944 industry of the German Reich was totally plagued by hundreds of Allied bombers. In addition to the progress of allied ground troops on each of the front, the sky was becoming to be the most threat affecting III Reich. As never before. From 1942/1943 for RLM ( Reichsluftfahrtministerium) became clear that to effectively combat with hundreds of bombers operting at high altitudes, Germany needed interceptor that operates at this same altitudes or higher.  In this challenge, Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs machines proved to be ineffective.