German World War II destroyers (section Zerstörer 1936)
Second World War Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine had 21 destroyers (German: Zerstörer) in service, while another one was just being completed. These 22 vessels...
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Fw 187 Falke (Falcon) – twin-engined two-seat heavy day fighter ("Zerstörer"), 1936. Focke-Wulf Fw 188 – reconnaissance aircraft (prototype), 1939. Focke-Wulf...
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Heavy fighter (redirect from Zerstörer)
single-crew aircraft. In Germany, these larger fighters were known as Zerstörer ("destroyers"). The heavy fighter was a major design class during the...
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over the wide reaches of the Pacific. Germany built similarly enlarged Zerstörer when it commenced naval rearmament. With the exception of the Tribal class...
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Messerschmitt Bf 110 (redirect from Bf-110 Zerstorer)
aircraft. Bf 110 C-1 Zerstörer, DB 601 B-1 engines. Bf 110 C-2 Zerstörer, fitted with FuG 10 radio, upgraded from FuG III. Bf 110 C-3 Zerstörer, upgraded 20 mm...
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torpedo boat Zerstörer/Typ 1934 Zerstörer/Typ 1934 A Zerstörer/Typ 1936 Zerstörer/Typ 1936 A Zerstörer/Typ 1936 A (Mob) Zerstörer/Typ 1936 B Type 101 Hamburg...
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1940) Zerstörer 1936C Zerstörer 1938A/Ac Zerstörer 1938B Zerstörer 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completed Zerstörer 1944 Zerstörer 1945...
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aircraft) of World War I. The Germans later came to refer to it as a Zerstörer (destroyer), and the Dutch as a Jachtkruiser (hunter cruiser). However...
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Luftwaffe (section Wever years, 1933–1936)
poor numbers and performance of aircraft. Units complained of lack of Zerstörer aircraft with all-weather capabilities and the "lack of climbing power...
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craft. The first minesweeper flotilla of the Kriegsmarine was formed in 1936 from pre-existing units of the Reichsmarine which had maintained two minesweeper...
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adapted to two-seats to compete with the Bf 110 in the heavy fighter (Zerstörer) role, but only nine aircraft were built in total. In the early to mid-1930s...
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Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. p. 379 Whitley, M.J. (1997). Zerstörer im Zweiten Weltkrieg (in German). Motorbuch Verlag. pp. 220–221. ISBN 3-613-01426-2...
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68) Arado Ar 240, heavy fighter + attack, Zerstörer (Destroyer) Arado Ar 440, heavy fighter + attack, Zerstörer (Destroyer) Blohm & Voss BV 40, Fighter...
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SMS Karlsruhe (1912) Prinz Eugen (1936) Destroyers Z.9 - Z.13 (Type Zerstörer 1934A) Destroyers Z.37 - Z.39 (Type Zerstörer 1936A (Mob)) Forel (Imperial Russian...
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the Zerstörer Bf 110 and Ju 88 units would only attack if the bombers had been deprived of their escort as described above and that the Zerstörer were...
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many exported to client states 110 Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer fighter production 6170 1936 162 Messerschmitt Bf 162 Jaguar bomber prototype 3 1937...
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Jagdgeschwader 134 (category Military units and formations established in 1936)
April 1936 in Dortmund. It would later become one of the premier Zerstörer wings of the Luftwaffe, as Zerstörergeschwader 26. On 7 March 1936, Hptm....
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Navy also had a number of vessels officially designated "destroyers" (Zerstörer), but numbered sequentially in the same series as the torpedo-boats. These...
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used as a training ship) Although the German World War II destroyer (Zerstörer) fleet was modern and the ships were larger than conventional destroyers...
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(Z 20) [Type 1936] at Wilhelmshaven; Wilhelm Heidkamp (Z 21) [Type 1936] outfitting at Kiel he entire Destroyer Flotilla: 4. Zerstörer-Flottille - Fregattenkapitän...
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bomber destroyer version. This type replaced the vulnerable twin-engine Zerstörer heavy fighters which could not survive interception by P-51 Mustangs flying...
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Gefechtsverband – defensive aerial tactic employed against USAAF heavy bombers when Zerstörer twin-engined heavy fighters had proven too vulnerable to Allied single-engined...
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Junkers Ju 88 (category Aircraft first flown in 1936)
88 B-0 10 pre-production aircraft with "stepless" fully glazed nose. Zerstörer, fighter-bomber and night fighter, based on A-series, but with sheet metal...
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The Dornier Do 29 was a proposed zerstörer, or heavy fighter, designed by Dornier as a competitor to the Messerschmitt Bf 110. The design answered the...
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anti-tank gun (captured from French) 47mm Schneider anti-tank gun model 1936 (captured from French) M35 Bohler and Breda 47mm guns of unclear origin Austrian...
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start of the battle, the twin-engined Messerschmitt Bf 110C long-range Zerstörer ("Destroyer") was also expected to engage in air-to-air combat while escorting...
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and 1940. The seven destroyers numbered from Z31 to Z39 were classed as Zerstörer 1936A (Mob); they were laid down in 1940 and 1941 and were slightly larger...
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7 mm) machine guns. In addition, the Luftwaffe's original solution of Zerstörer twin-engine Messerschmitt Bf 110G bomber destroyers, while effective against...
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Zerstörergeschwader 26 (category Military units and formations established in 1936)
interceptor due to production shortfalls with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer-class aircraft. The wing served on the dormant Western Front during the...
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States Navy Fletcher Destroyer 2,050 30 December 1942 to West Germany as Zerstörer 2 1959, to Greece as Kimon 1981, scrapped 1993 Rio Grande do Norte Brazilian...
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