SD-2 and SD-10 Luftwaffe Losses

[Chris Goss]

Got a nice photo of a II./KG 51 ac doing just this at the start of Barbarossa-very low-level and banking

[Reiner]

https://archiv-akh.de/filme?utf-8=%E...eschwader+51#1

From 10:00:03 demonstration of the SD 2 with the III./KG51. I beleave its Malaky bombing practice area.

Rene

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Reiner, thank you for the wonderful link and video...quite amazing and pretty nice to see low level flight and how the SD 2 worked in action. Elucidative.

[Adriano Baumgartner]

On the second or third passage, it seems that the Ju 88 got a bit higher on his run and that the SD 2 bombs exploded in the air, isn't it?
Were they supposed to explode on impact or could they (as seen) explode in the air, therefore expreading their lethal shrapnels on a broad area? I was unaware of this possibility. The General seems impressed by the demonstration, by the way.

[Adriano Baumgartner]

More ore less at 10:46hs we do have another use of SD 2 bombs on an "enemy" airfield...

[Adriano Baumgartner]

On 11:02'50" on the newsreel or 01:02'50" on the video, there is the image of the nose of a Ju 88 with a huge number 49 on the nose and the following werknummer R5249/497.
I never saw this kind of identification. Was it common? What it means? Is that a valid werknummer or a rebuilt machine (R = Remanufactured ?)
Is someone familiar with this code ?

[Adriano Baumgartner]

at 11:05hs on the newsreel or 01:05hs, again we do see SD 2 on boxes

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Could be the Ju 88 coded 9K+BR from 7th Staffeln shown on the newsreel, that with werknummer 6147 ?
What was the fate of this machine 6147 ?
Are other losses for 9K+BR machines known ?

A.

[Bombphoon]

Originally Posted by Adriano Baumgartner

On the second or third passage, it seems that the Ju 88 got a bit higher on his run and that the SD 2 bombs exploded in the air, isn't it?
Were they supposed to explode on impact or could they (as seen) explode in the air, therefore expreading their lethal shrapnels on a broad area? I was unaware of this possibility. The General seems impressed by the demonstration, by the way.

The 41 fuze had 2 settings - impact and time, the latter could be used for airbursts.

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Thank you Bombphoon for the relevant information. Learned one thing more today