Some had been tested before 1939. WWII was the moment they proved they belonged on almost every aircraft that followed.

The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.

May 1945. The war ends, and the Luftwaffe collapses overnight. Across Europe, thousands of German aircraft sit abandoned, from classic[...] ...

German anti-aircraft crews needed a way to locate and illuminate enemy aircraft moving through the night sky, and the 60 cm Flak-Scheinwerfer 36 provided an impressive solution. Instead of an ordinary ...