The Ju 87’s fixed undercarriages provided sturdy platforms for takeoffs and landings, including on improvised airfields in the field, but at the cost of airspeed due to drag. However, it also featured ...

One of the Nazi's most emblematic pieces of military ordnance, and perhaps the most feared plane of World War II, was the "Screaming Bird of Prey" — the Junkers Ju-87. It's better known as a "Stuka," ...

During the Second World War, the skies of Europe were transformed into a battleground. Here, some of histories deadliest episodes of airborne conflict were played out. At times, the air pulsed to the ...

This documentary covers the dramatic rise and fall of one of the most iconic aircraft in history - the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka.

The Stuka was as much a psychological warfare weapon as it was an actual weapon of war. Before hostilities fully commenced, the decade preceding the outbreak of the Second World War, saw a flowering ...

A Junkers Ju-87 begins to roll in on a target in the Balkans during the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. The "little bomber" was considered outdated before WWII even began, but it wound up ...

In the opening days of the Blitzkrieg campaign, few aircraft could invoke as much terror as the Junkers Ju 87. Nicknamed the "Stuka" (an abbreviation of ...