Schräge Musik (German pronunciation: [ˈʃʁɛːgə muˈziːk]) was a common name for the fitting of an upward-firing autocannon or machine gun, to an interceptor...

Schräge Musik installation. About 95 were built until it was retired from front line use in mid-1944. The N-2 was originally not to have the Schräge Musik...

G-series night fighters were retrofitted or factory-built with the Schräge Musik off-bore gun system, which fired upward at an oblique angle for shooting...

capacity and was to be armed with two upward-facing MK 108 cannons in a Schräge Musik configuration behind the cockpit. Early models were to have been fitted...

Wk.Nr.550214 fitted with FuG 217 is a rare survivor. The effective Schräge Musik offensive armament fitment was the German name given to installations...

altitude and often also two 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 108 cannon, as an offensive Schräge Musik upward-firing system completely contained within the rear fuselage,...

(captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 3.7 cm M39(r)) • Schräge Musik – also independently developed by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service...

in an "upwards-and-forwards" position – almost like the Luftwaffe's Schräge Musik night fighter cannon emplacements – for fighting USAAF B-29 Superfortresses...

151/20 from 1941 onwards, it saw a comeback in 1943 as the primary Schräge Musik gun in the Bf 110 (and other) night fighters, as it fit perfectly into...

about fifteen minutes, some by aircraft carrying the new upward-firing Schräge Musik. The bombers shot down five of the German fighters. The Luftwaffe dispatched...

Ho-203 cannon in nose and two fixed 20 mm (0.79 in) Ho-5 cannons in a Schräge Musik-style dorsal frontal position, and one 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Type 98 machine...

Ruhrstahl X-4 Jagdfaust List of weapons of World War II Japanese aircraft Schräge Musik List of Luftwaffe air-dropped ordnance [de] "DeutscheLuftwaffe.de's...

proposition. This technique, applied later in the war by Germany as Schräge Musik, seems to have been neither taught nor practised by the RAF. Despite...

108s, while a second pair of upward firing MK 108s were added in a Schräge Musik installation behind the cockpit. The K model was a pure bomber, with...

787 in) cannons. Several C-6 night fighters were equipped with two "Schräge-Musik" upward-firing 20 mm (0.79 in) cannons in trial fittings, and from mid...

20 mm cannons in the belly replaced with 30 mm (1.18 in) cannons in Schräge Musik behind the cockpit, two built. Ki-108 High-altitude fighter prototype...

from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 3.7 cm M39(r)) 5 cm FlaK 41 Schräge Musik – also independently developed by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service...

5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns in oblique mount, similar to World War II German Schräge Musik, to study the ability to attack Soviet bombers from below...

in a turret could (much like German night fighters in 1943–1945 with Schräge Musik) engage the German bomber from beneath. Attacks from below offered a...

was also fitted to night fighters in an unusual installation, called "Schräge Musik" (literally "awkward music" or "slanted music"). In this configuration...

aircraft designs used different concept of fixed mounts, as found in Schräge Musik or AC-47 Spooky. The Stridsvagn 103 is an unusual turretless main battle...

IIs, the FN-64 was almost never used. When the Luftwaffe began using Schräge Musik to make attacks from below in the winter of 1943/1944, modifications...

Night Fighter 2 × fuselage-mounted 30 mm (1.181 in) MK 108 cannon, Schräge Musik 2 × forward-facing 20 mm (0.787 in) MG 151 cannon 2 × forward-facing...

Luftwaffe during World War II. The Jagdfaust design was based on the Schräge Musik, the manually triggered upward-firing air-to-air cannon extensively...

fired from a single aircraft in an upwards direction (much like the Schräge Musik upward firing autocannon on German Nachtjäger night fighters) was proposed...

produced since the 1960s. Escort fighter Focke-Wulf Fw 190A Sturmbock Schräge Musik Verkaik, Robert (2020). Defiant : Forgotten heroes of the Battle of...

Several examples of a night fighter version C6N1-S with oblique-firing (Schräge Musik configuration) single 30 mm (or dual 20 mm) cannon were converted from...

cannon. The MG FF was retained for flexible, wing and upward firing Schräge Musik mounts to the end of the war. The German preference for explosive power...

and a single obliquely-firing 20 mm MG FF autocannon in the common Schräge Musik upwards/forward-firing offensive fitment also used for heavier-airframed...

"Aurora"), with Mitsubishi Kasei engines, was equipped with radar and Schräge Musik-style upward-firing as well as forward-firing 20 mm cannon. A total...