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The Messerschmitt Bf 110, often known unofficially as the Me 110, [Note 1] is a twin-engined Zerstörer (destroyer, heavy fighter), fighter-bomber (Jagdbomber or Jabo), and night fighter (Nachtjäger) designed by the German aircraft company Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) and produced by successor company Messerschmitt.
The Messerschmitt Bf 110, often (erroneously) called Me 110, [1] was a twin-engine heavy fighter (Zerstörer – German for "Destroyer" – a concept that in German service involved a long-ranged, powerful fighter able to range about friendly or even enemy territory destroying enemy bombers and even fighters when located [2]) in the service of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
The Daimler-Benz DB 600 was a German aircraft engine designed and built before World War II as part of a new generation of German engine technology. It was a liquid-cooled inverted V12 engine , and powered the Messerschmitt Bf 110 and Heinkel He 111 among others.
The Fokker G.I in flight. The Fokker G.I was a private venture design by Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker in 1936. The G.I was designed to serve on the heavier end of the spectrum of heavy fighters, as a jachtkruiser [7] or a bomber destroyer, and was comparable to early models of the German Messerschmitt Bf 110.
Basic side-by-side comparison of the Me 210 and Me 410 wing planforms. The origins of the Me 410 are closely associated with the preceding Me 210.Development of this aircraft had been projected back in 1937 as a multi-purpose successor to the Bf 110, which had some identified shortcomings even prior to seeing combat service.
Zerstörergeschwader 76 was formed on 1 May 1939 from Zerstörergeschwader 144. [1] I. Gruppe and II.Gruppe formed without a Geschwaderstab.The II. Gruppe was initially equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and was known as Jagdgruppe 176, while it retained its heavy fighter identity officially, then re-equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 over the winter, 1939/40.
The MK 108 (German: Maschinenkanone—"machine cannon") is a 30 mm caliber autocannon manufactured in Germany during World War II by Rheinmetall‑Borsig for use in aircraft. [1] The cannon saw widespread use as an anti-bomber weapon during the second half of the war, first seen in 1943 in the Bf 110G-2 bomber destroyers and Bf 109G-6/U4. [1]
Developed from the DB 601, the DB 605 was used from 1942 to 1945 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, and the Bf 110 and Me 210C heavy fighters. The DB 610 , a pair of DB 605s geared to turn a single output shaft that replaced the similar DB 606 , was used in the A-3 and all A-5 variants of Germany's only operational heavy bomber, the Heinkel ...