Something a little different today as I’m doing a ship
The German Graf Zeppelin Class Aircraft Carrier was one of the obscure WW2 Carriers
The Graf Zeppelin Class Aircraft Carrier was to have 43 Aircraft
The Graf Zeppelin’s air wing was to have BF109T-1 Fighters which would’ve had two nose mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine guns with 2000 rounds and two wing mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine guns with 1000 rounds and an external fuel tank.
The bombers would’ve been Ju-87C Stuka would’ve had two wing mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine guns with 1000 rounds and a single rear turreted 7.92mm MG-15 machine guns with 900 rounds and a single 550ib SC250JA munition.
The Torpedo Bomber was to be the Fi-167A-0 with a single nose mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine gun with 500 rounds and a single rear turreted 7.92mm MG-15 machine guns with 600 rounds
In her Torpedo strike, the Fi-167A would carry a single LT F5B Torpedo or in her bomber role the munition was to be a single 2200ib SC1000 or 1100ib SC500 or four 110ib SC50 Munitions.
The BF109T-1 had a range of 586 miles while the Ju-87C Stuka’s range was between 370 to 490 miles and the Fi-167A-0 had a range of 810 miles.
Her gun armament was eight 2-turret 5.9-Inch SK C/28 Naval Guns and 62 Anti-Aircraft Guns which would have consisted Twelve 4.1-inch SK C/33, Eleven 2-turret 1.5-Inch SK C/30 and Seven 4-turret 0.79-inch SK C/30 Anti-Aircraft Guns.
So the model for this unfinished Nazi aircraft carrier looks very good for German’s attempt at an Aircraft carrier even though the soviet stole it and sunk and its remains weren’t discovered until the early 21st century
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