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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)
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Subject: Re: WWII german anti-shiping plane
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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)



   Several JU-88's were built with a faired pod underneath the fuselage for
a 75mm gun.  Several more got 50mm or paired 37mm guns.  No aircraft the
Germans ever built carried a 28cm (11"!) gun -- the barrel alone would have
weighed on the order of 35-40 tons.
   The JU-88's were very slow with these gun pods, so the pods were designed
to be jettisoned in emergencies.



  
  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.