DROP ORDNANCE
Welcome to the Drop Ordnance Section of the Luftwaffe Resource Center. This section covers the wide variety of free fall bombs and torpedoes used by the Luftwaffe during WWII. Glide bombs, rockets and missiles will be dealt with in a seperate section.
Junkers Ju 87B being bombed up
- BOMBS, DISPENSERS & DROP CONTAINERS
Armor Piercing/Anti-Armor Bombs
Rocket Assisted Armor Piercing
Semi-Armor Piercing
General Purpose Bombs
Incendiaries
Concrete and Converted Bombs
- PC 500 Anti-Armor
- PC 1000 Anti-Armor
- PC 1400 Fritz Anti-Armor
- PC 1600 Anti-Armor
- PD 500 Armor Piercing
- PD 1000 Armor Piercing
- SB 1000
- SB 1000 Parachute
- SB 2500
Rocket Assisted Armor Piercing
- Introduction Description of type
- PC 500 RS Rocket Assisted AP
- PC 1000 RS Rocket Assisted AP
- PC 1800 RS Rocket Assisted AP
Semi-Armor Piercing
- SD 1 Fragmentation
- SD 2 Fragmentation "Butterfly"
- SD 4 HL Hollow Charge
- SD 10 Fragmentation
- SD 10C Anti-Personnel Bomb
- SD 50 Fragmentation
- SD 70 Fragmentation
- SD 250 Fragmentation
- SD 500, SD 500 A and SD 500 E Fragmentation
- SD 1000 Fragmentation
- SD 1700 Fragmentation
General Purpose Bombs
- SC 50 Bi General Purpose
- SC 50 Grade I General Purpose
- SC 50 Grade II General Purpose
- SC 250 General Purpose
- SC 500 Grade III General Purpose
- SC 1000 General Purpose "Herman"
- SC 1200 General Purpose
- SC 1800 General Purpose "Satan"
- SC 2000 General Purpose
- SC 2500 General Purpose
Incendiaries
- B1 Series (1 kg. & 1.3 kg.) Incendiary
- B2EZ Incendiary
- B2.2EZ Incendiary
- Brand 10 Liquid Filled Incendiary
- Brand C50 A High-Intensity Incendiary
- Brand C50 B High-Intensity Incendiary
- Brand C250 High-Intensity Incendiary
- FLAM C250 Liquid Incendiary
- FLAM KC250 Liquid Incendiary
- FLAM 500 Liquid Incendiary
- Sprengbrand C 50 Incendiary Bomb
- Strbd C500 Anti-Personel Liquid Incendiary Bomb
Concrete and Converted Bombs
Smoke Bombs, Flares and Markers
Submunition Dispenser/Containers
Misc. Bombs
Misc. Bomb Equipment
FUZES
- NC 50 Smoke Bomb
- NC 50 WC ND D/SEE Smoke Bomb
- NC 250 S Smoke Bomb
Submunition Dispenser/Containers
- Introduction Description of type
- AB 23 SD 2
- AB 24T SD 2 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 36 and BSK 36 Three Sided Container
- AB 42 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 70-1 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 70-3 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 70D1 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 250-1 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 250-2 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 250-3 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 250 KZ Boden Container
- AB 500-1 Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 500-1B Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 500-3A Submunitions Dispenser/Drop Container
- AB 1000-2 Submunitions Dispenser
- ABB 500 Submunitions Dispenser
- BDC 10 Cluster Container
- BSB 360, 700 & 1000 Incendiary Bomb Container
- Mk 70 LK & Mk BK Flare Container
- Mk 250 LK & BK Flair Container
- Mk 500 Boden Container
- Streubrand C 500 Container
Misc. Bombs
- 1/2-kg Antipersonnel Parachute Bomb
- SD 1 Type Practice Bomb
- SD 2 Type Practice Bomb
- ZC 10 Concrete Practice Bomb
- ZC 50 Concrete Practice Bomb
Misc. Bomb Equipment
- Nose Spikes For SC 50 Stabo, SC 70 Stabo, SC 250 Stabo, and SC 500 Stabo
- Antirichochet Rings
FUZES
- Introduction to Fuzes - a basic introduction to the overall construction and nomenclature of fuzing systems.
- (41) - Mechanical Clockwork
- (41)A - Mechanical Clockwork
- (3) - Mechanical Nose Impact Fuze
- (23)A - Mechanical Tail Impact Fuze
- (24) - Mechanical Antibreak-up Fuze
- (24)A - Mechanical Antibreak-up Fuze
- (A) Electrical Impact Fuse
- (5) Electrical Impact Fuse
- (15) Electrical Impact Fuse
- (25) Electrical Impact Fuse