When did the german army stop using the stuka bobmber and what was its replacement?

Question

Im big into the planes.

Answer 1

No Wikipedia answer here.

The Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber was employed by the Luftwaffe, not the Wehrmacht. There was never a replacement; it flew until the end of the war. It was successful only during the very early stages when the Allies lacked capable fighter aircraft to intercept them. They took immense losses in the Battle of Britain, and were thereafter relegated to the Eastern front. A conversion armed with twin 37mm flak cannon saw work as a successful tank-buster.

Read the biography of Hans Ulrich Rudel, Germany's most decorated airman. He was a Stuka pilot.

Answer 2

the stuka was first used by the Luftwaffe in 1937 and is being constructed till 1944 with a total number of 5700 airplanes in all its different types
JU 87 A first production batch with a engine that had to little power ( 3 plains where used in the Spanish civil war )

JU 87 B the first production serie that was mass produced used on all fronts . There was also a special version for the africacorps this model had all the problems of the A model solved

JU 87 C a version designed to use on the Graf Zeppelin a aircraft carrier that never was terminated

JU 87 D the version that was build in the largest numbers of withs different variants where build

JU 87 G the kannonevogel this was armed with 2 x 37mm guns to destroy tanks

In about the second half of 1944 the Germans where looking for a replacement of the Stuka . One of the candidates was the FW190 in a role as ground attack plain but hey never can to replace the Stuka compleetly

Answer 3

The Luftwaffe never stopped using the Ju-87 Stuka, which was its premier dive bomber throughout the war. However,

After the Battle of Britain, the Stuka was little used in western Europe, but it remained effective further south where Allied fighters were in short supply (notably in the attacks on Crete and Malta), and was used in vast numbers on the Eastern Front, although the steady rise in Soviet airpower as the war progressed meant that Stuka squadrons suffered very heavy losses.

EDIT: The Ju-88 saw prominent action towards the end of the war and was also fitted for dive bombing but never quite replaced the Ju-87.

Answer 4

It was used through out the war as it's replacements didn't live up to expectations. The supposed replacements included the HS-129, Do-217E, Fw-190A6. None of these did the job well enough so poor old stuka kept being slaughtered by allied fighters.

Answer 5

That would be the Luftwaffe not the wehrmacht then.

The german airforce lost air superiority and then their infrastructure was bombed to hell and then they ran out of fuel etc etc

Answer 6

You know I live in Gloucester Ma and they harbor which isn't that far away from me was shut down because of german bombs from ww2 where in the ocean! the Artical is below my answer. Its pretty interesting.

The sharp thud heard across much of the city early yesterday was the planned detonation of a World War II-era depth charge at the municipal compost field near Dogtown.
The 30-pound bomb used in submarine warfare had been caught in the net of a commercial fishing boat Wednesday afternoon about 22 miles offshore near Stellwagen Bank, according to the Coast Guard, and was brought to the Jodry Fish Pier for examination and disposal.

"I thought it was thunder," said Herman Stanislovsvich. His Annisquam home is more than a mile from the field east of Cherry Street where the device, about the size of a fire hydrant, had been taken for disposal in a city dump truck.

The Coast Guard, Navy, state police explosives experts, city police and fire officials convened to secure the pier and plan for disposal.

The explosion, about 12:30 a.m, left a mulch crater 3 feet deep and 6 feet wide. It was heard in Bay View and as far away as East Gloucester.

The depth charge contained an unidentified explosive equivalent to 25 pounds of dynamite, said state police Sgt. Robert Bousquet.

The Gloucester boat Venture was dragging for scallops in about 20 miles of water east of Nahant near a former dump site when the device was discovered, according to state police, which organized the safety and disposal operation in consultation with a U.S. Navy ordnance expert helicoptered in from the naval base in Newport, R.I.

The port was closed for more than four hours from 5:30 p.m. Wednesday while local, state and military experts considered what they had and what to do with it, said Mayor John Bell. He was called to the fish pier from a School Committee meeting after it was determined the device "was extremely dangerous."

Fire Chief Barry McKay Bell said it was the first bomb brought up from the ocean to Gloucester in "four to five years."

Bell said the disposal protocol called for the creation of an cleared "explosive zone" at the Fish Pier and then along the route up the Route 128 extension to Poplar Street and then Cherry.

To secure it in the truck for the trip, the device was centered in a crater dug in a ton of sand from the Department of Public Works yard and contained in a 20-inch PVC pipe into which a gallon of oil had been poured, said Public Works Director Joseph Parisi.

The compost field road winds for a half mile up toward Dogtown.

The depth charge, which Bell said "looked like four garbage disposal units on top of each other," was detonated by the state police hazardous device unit using a 1,000-foot fuse and battery-powered trigger, Bell said.

During the device's stay on the pier and well after the detonation, helicopters patrolled at about 2,000 feet.

Bell said thoughts of detonating the device in Magnolia Woods were abandoned after concerns were raised that the explosion could rupture the seal of the one-time landfill.

Thoughts of taking it to sea were also dropped, due to concern about rupturing utility lines, including the outfall pipe that extends from the sewer treatment plant nearly a mile south of the Dog Bar breakwater.