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Originally Posted by Kodoss
@Robtek: so you wanna say that "D.(Luft)T.579/2" printed July 1940 and "D.(Luft)T.579/6" printed October 1940 given out from the german Luftwaffe are wrong?
Don't forget that those early ones doesn't have any heavy armor like the later ones.
And in the "D.(Luft)T.2110C, D und E; Bf 110 C, D und E Flugzeughandbuch Teil 8B Einbau und Prüfung der Abwurfwaffe; Heft 1" from May 1941 on page 5 under "Beschreibung" (description) you find:
"Die Rumpfabwurfwaffe kann beladen werden mit:
2x SC 250 kg Bombe oder
2x SD 500 kg Bombe oder
1x SD 1000 kg Bombe oder
1x SC 1000 kg Bombe und
___________1x SC 250 kg Bombe.
Die Flächenabwurfwaffe kann beladen werden mit:
4x SD 50 kg Bombe oder
4x BD C 10 (BD 10 Bündel mit 5 SC 10) oder
2x S 125 (Nebelgeräte)."
If you count 1xSC1000+1xSC250+4xSD50 together you get 1450kg.
Add the weight of the armor platings from '41 in the Bf 110 and you get your 2000kg.
Or take the Bf 110 D-1: 1050 l Fuel + 106 l Oil in the belly tank and 2x900 l in the ventral tanks = 2956 l >> 2056*0,78 = 2306 kg and thats only fuel/oil! and I didn't add the weight of the empty tanks.
also starting weight: 7,1 t, by overload 9,3 t
So it can carry 2xSD1000 bombs!!
They even made the undercarriage sturdier for that by the C-7.
Even the C-1/B with their weaker undercarriage could be attached with them, but if you could take off in one piece from a grassfield is another question.
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I have to pipe up here. Just because the manual states so it doesn't mean bombs above 500kg were carried operationally. I went through my sources on Erprobungsgruppe 210 (which was the only unit to use the Bf 110 as fighter-bomber in 1940) showed no bombs bigger than SC or SD 500 used.
It's a bit of a mystery why a dedicated Dienstvorschrift was printed just when Erprobungsgruppe 210 had just been established to test the usefulness of Bf 110 and Bf 109 as fighter-bombers (established July 1 1940). And that the amended version from May 1941 contained a more varied loadout list with heavier bombs is not that surprising, even though it must be kept in mind that bombs above 500kg were considered "special ordnance" and its use had to be ordered/approved by the Fliegerkorps.