German bombers and large-caliber bombs

[LukeFF]

Having flown the Ju 88 for a while now in career mode, I was wondering: what sorts of targets would the Germans attack with bombs of 500 kg or larger? Anti-shipping and hardened targets (like bunkers and fortresses) come to mind, but is there anything else they would be used for? 

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

The 2.5T bomb is for fortresses i doubt a 500kg bomb would even put a chip in bunker roof.

Apparently 500kg bombs struggled to kill tanks unless it was a near direct hit ?

 

[Ehret]

15 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

Having flown the Ju 88 for a while now in career mode, I was wondering: what sorts of targets would the Germans attack with bombs of 500 kg or larger? Anti-shipping and hardened targets (like bunkers and fortresses) come to mind, but is there anything else they would be used for? 

 

Collapsing bridges could be a good use.

[Kurfurst]

This might answer the question.

 

It looks like the SC 500 to SC 1000 was meant for stuff like tall buildings, subterreanean installations up to 8 meters deep, raised railway tracks, particularly large fields and airfields, while the thicker walled SD 500 was meant for targets with concrete roofs up to 1 meter thickness, stone-and concrete bridges, fixed railway installations.

[AndyJWest]

The Luftwaffe dropped significant numbers of SC 500 and SC 1000 bombs during the London blitz, which suggests that they saw them as general-purpose weapons for use against unprotected targets. As the Allies later found in the bombing campaign against Germany, using a mixture of HE bombs to damage and destroy buildings (and block roads) and incendiaries to start fires was often more effective than using either type of weapon on its own.

[LukeFF]

19 minutes ago, VO101Kurfurst said:

It looks like the SC 500 to SC 1000 was meant for stuff like tall buildings, subterreanean installations up to 8 meters deep, raised railway tracks, particularly large fields and airfields, while the thicker walled SD 500 was meant for targets with concrete roofs up to 1 meter thickness, stone-and concrete bridges, fixed railway installations.

 

Thanks for this! I see that SC 500s are also recommended for railway stations. 

[NETSCAPE]

Are you asking about the SC500 use in general, or with the ju 88 specifically? SC250 was most common bomb across the board with all planes, but the SC500 was still heavily used by Stuka's and Heinkel 111's: http://yogysoft.de/pawel/3557_01.html

 

I only know this stuff from researching Stuka and Heinkel sorties to determine loadouts. 

 

The SC1000 usage is interesting. If you go through the different pages (chronological) of that KG55 flight log you will see large spans of time lacking ANY SC1000 usage. Specifically I notice when relocating to fields of operation to bomb Stalingrad they didn't use SC1000's at all. For certain availability and logistics plays one part in that.

[LukeFF]

8 minutes ago, NETSCAPE said:

Are you asking about the SC500 use in general, or with the ju 88 specifically? SC250 was most common bomb across the board with all planes, but the SC500 was still heavily used by Stuka's and Heinkel 111's: http://yogysoft.de/pawel/3557_01.html

 

Mainly the Ju 88 for now, since that's what I'm flying in career mode at the moment. The default bomb loadout is always 4 x SC 250s, so part of what I was wondering was how common this was.

 

EDIT: that's a great link there. Thanks! Neat to see what sort of bombs were being used against different sorts of targets.

Edited August 22, 2018 by LukeFF

[Kurfurst]

This may give some idea for 1941 at least - average monthly 'consumption' of various bomb types in Barbarossa, ie. June - November 1941.

[NETSCAPE]

I'd like to know what those 9 x SC2500's were used on.

[-TBC-AeroAce]

27 minutes ago, NETSCAPE said:

I'd like to know what those 9 x SC2500's were used on.

 

Servasterpol would be my bet. That is where they used the God mortars and the big railway gun.

[NETSCAPE]

4 minutes ago, AeroAce said:

 

Servasterpol would be my bet. That is where they used the God mortars and the big railway gun.

 

I've played enough GGWITE to know to move all my heaviest guns to Leningrad and Sevastopol. 

[InProgress]

 

here :] it's for americans (and raf) but should give you idea. And i think it's not in KG but lb.

Edited August 22, 2018 by InProgress

[MiloMorai]

5 minutes ago, InProgress said:

 

here :] it's for americans (and raf) but should give you idea. And i think it's not in KG but lb.

 

Those are American bombs and would be lbs.

 

British bombs, https://ww2data.blogspot.com/2016/11/british-explosive-ordnance-introduction.html

 

[csThor]

On 8/22/2018 at 9:55 AM, NETSCAPE said:

I'd like to know what those 9 x SC2500's were used on.

 

Actually those were used against the Citadel of Brest-Litovsk on June 23/24 1941. The Sevastopol attacks did not begin in any great scale until May/June 1942.

Edited August 23, 2018 by csThor
June, not July

[NETSCAPE]

1 minute ago, csThor said:

 

Actually those were used against the Citadel of Brest-Litovsk on July 23/24 1941. The Sevastopol attacks did not begin in any great scale until May/June 1942.

 

That's what I figured. I couldn't think of any thing else.