Bomber hopes for COD

[Zorin]

If you want to carry 4x SC500 you have two options.

Rüstzustand A

1220l fuel in wing tanks + 4x SC500

Take-off weight: 12590kg

Rüstzustand B

2120l fuel in wing tanks and forward bomb bay tank + 4x SC500

Take-off weight: 13510kg

With regards to the 28x SC50.

Rüstzustand A allowed for 2620l of fuel and 28x SC50 with the use of the two 700l drop tanks.

So there is no real trade off you have to make as the Ju88 was so versatile in its outfittings.

On a sidenote, the max loadout would be 2900kg of bombs (28x SC50 + 6x 250kg) for Rüstzustand A. Granted, only on a paved runway but still pretty impressive and the range attainable with this load would have been easily sufficient for raids on targets in continental Europe during 1939/40.