Never has a warplane so obsolete, vulnerable and technologically basic wrought so much damage to its enemies as did the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka. Engineered for precision, designed to instill fear, the ...

Designing the dive bomber . While a longstanding myth recounts the tale of World War One ace Ernst Udet becoming enamored with US Navy Curtiss F11C-2 Goshawk biplane dive bombers, the truth is the ...

By 1944, the dive-bomber was largely replaced by far more survivable and hard-hitting ‘jabos’: robust, high-speed fighter bombers like the Fw-190F with maximum speeds exceeding 300 or 400 ...

Widely known simply as the “Stuka,” from the German word for dive bomber (“ Sturzkampfflugzeug“), the Ju-87 was one of the first aircraft to be designed specifically with such tactics in mind.

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler was hell-bent on rebuilding Germany's military might, and the dive bomber was an integral part. Ernst Udet, an ace credited with shooting down 62 enemy aircraft during ...

The German Stuka dive bomberwas one such airplane that terrorized people during that war. Now in Ukraine the United States has furnished soldiers with the Javelin anti-tank weapon and the HIMARS ...

If the standard P-51 was the Allied answer to the Bf-109 and the Fw-190, then its dive bomber cousin was a similar match for German dive bombers like the Ju-87 Stuka.

I. THE Junkers 87, better known as the Stuka dive-bomber, has registered on the popular imagination more deeply than any other airplane thus far exhibited in combat.

BERLIN (AP) — A German Military Historical Museum spokesman says divers are making good progress on bringing up the wreck of a German World War II Stuka dive bomber from the floor of the Baltic ...

BERLIN (AP) — German military divers are working to hoist the wreck of a Stuka dive bomber from the floor of the Baltic Sea, a rare example of the plane that once wreaked havoc over Europe as ...