Most dive bombers can give pilots a vertical feeling, just like diving. But Stuka really made a 90-degree angle perpendicular to the ground. The indicator on the starboard side of the cockpit can accurately indicate the angle of 30 degrees to 90 degrees, so that the pilot can make a correct judgment. When Stuka dives vertically about 1370 meters, its speed accelerates from the initial 4 10 km/h to 540 km/h, which is like a rocket rushing to the ground at high speed. When the pilot pays attention to the altitude, there will be a warning indicator to remind him to pull up the plane. The lowest dive height of the German Air Force is 800 meters, and the lower clouds basically limit the horizontal attack of the Ju 87.

air attack

If the distance of the target can make the Stuka bomber group carry out large-scale bombing. Then Ju87 can carry 1800kg bomb for this short-range combat mission. However, the air strikes launched by this single-engine aircraft are obviously far from being compared with the strategic bombing of Germany by the US military's four-engine heavy bombers. Russia's combat experience shows that it is unrealistic for Stuka bombers to hit tanks directly with heavy bombs. On the Russian side, the standard anti-tank weapon is the SD-4-H 1 4 kg cluster bomb, with 78 small bombs in the magazine. Its power can penetrate the armor of any allied tank-even the JS-2 heavy tank used by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.