View Single Post
  #7  
Old 19th February 2021, 01:32
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
Alter Hase
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 2,943
Laurent Rizzotti will become famous soon enough
Re: 6.Minensuchstaffel loss on 18 Februay 1945

Well, I had never heard of KKG before, but it is a possibility (for those who don't know, KKG (for Knallkörpergerät) was a device that allowed to clear acoiustic mines from the air, the same way that ring allowed to blow magnetic mines. See http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=32522).

As the naval chronicle says Soviet airmen downed 3 Ju 52 equiped for clearing mines, they were probably equiped with rings rather than KKG.

And I always thought that Ju 52 MS in loss lists were the ones equipped with the big ring.
Reply With Quote