Hello everyone, hjnbnb here, I was looking into the WM-21’s ordnance and from what I can find it appears to be able to carry incendiaries and I was wondering if it would be viable to have them in game.
From a bit of research I can’t find much other than 60/120 1KG incendiary bombs, but can’t find any more information. I suspect something similar to the German B1E incendiary, maybe the 36.M or 39.M? Even then I can’t find much information other than the name of the incendiaries, I have no idea as to how much of the bomb was actually the incendiary, not the mix can anyone help me?
I suppose as a neat quirk it could be tweaked post-update launch to carry incendiaries in-game. From what I gathered when I was bickering with friends about the same mention you probably saw on the WM-21 carrying incendiaries, it is very likely that any incendiaries the WM-21 feasibly carried during service were of German production (B1E), since the SD10Cs the WM itself usually carries are of German origin themselves.
I’m currently waiting on a Hungarian contact of mine to get back to me with some proper documentation on the WM-21, since I was also wondering whether it ever carried any other bombs later in the war, cheers!
I really appreciate you getting back to me about this. I suspected the B1E or some weird licensed version of it at least but I think it would be a cool feature for it
Great news! I actually did get information back, and it was of the highest caliber. Apparently the Hungarians did use the 36.M/39.M (and not German B1Es, although some use is still recorded), and I received information about it. I also received details on a “33 M ‘O’ and 33 M ‘M’ Type 2 kg Fragmentation Bomb” (also in the document) used in the CR–32 (8 bombs), CR–42 (8 bombs), and Héja (88 bombs). But what mostly matters is the Incendiary, the numbers for that are; WM–21 Sólyom (120 bombs), He 46 (120 bombs), and Ju 86 (576 x 36 M or 768 x 39 M bombs).
According to this document, the stats are as follows: a total weight of 0.95 kg / 1 kg, with incendiary filling weights of 0.20 kg (20%) and 0.32 kg (32%) for the 36 and 39, respectively.
Shout-out to Aranyi Zoltán from the SZTE Klebelsberg Könyvtár és Levéltár in Hungary.
Source (& pics): Mészáros Sándor : Bombák és ejtőlőszerek a magyar légierőben = Aero
Magazin 1990/8. pp 46-47.
