| | John Sponauer - Close Air Support in WWII: The Luftwaffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The problem of friendly fire was a new hazard of bombing close to your own army, and while the techniques of the Germans seem primitive, the 50+ years since the war haven't particularly seen much improvement in identifying friend from foe from the air. |
 | | After discovering that conventional bombs often were ineffective at scoring hits on moving or dispersed armor, the Germans introduced the 8.8 lb SD-4HI cluster bomblet, which had a hollow charge warhead that could penetrate as much as five inches of armor. |
 | | General purpose bombs tended to be either the SC-10 (22 lb), SC-50 (110 lb), or SC-250 (550 lb), sometimes fitted with long spikes on their nose to attack raillines and roads. |
| www.sponauer.com /germancas (8213 words) |