                   Second Revised Release  5/05/92

During 1942, the inadequacy of bombs against tanks became increasingly       
obvious to the Stukagruppen. This inadequacy had been revealed, in fact, on
the fourth day of the invasion of the Soviet Union when the whole of 
St.G.2 attacked a concentration of some 60 Soviet tanks 50 miles south of 
Grodno, later discovering that only one tank had been knocked out, and it was
not until the beginning of 1943 that a reasonably satisfactory weapon became
available in the form of the first tank-busting Ju87Gs.

The Ju87G-1 was actually a conversion of the Ju87D-5 to carry a pair of
37mm FLAK 18 (BK 3,7) cannon which, together with their magazines, were slung
beneath the wing immediately outboard of the main undercarriage members. The
cannon mountings were detachable and could be replaced by bomb racks 
operationally in the summer of 1942 on a modified Ju87D-3 which was fown by
several pilots, including Oberleutnant Hans-Ulrich Rudel of 1./St.G.2 who 
was later to become the Luftwaffe's leading exponent of the art of tank
busting, and to be credited with knocking out a total of 519 Soviet tanks 
while flying the Ju87G-1. The brilliant success enjoyed by the Panzerjager-
Staffel formed on the first Ju87G-1s to reach the Eastern front resulted,
after October 1943 (when the Stukageschwader 1, 2, 3, and 77 were
redesignated Schlachtgeschwader 1, 2, 3, and 77), in a Ju87G-equipped
Panzerjaeger-Staffel being added to each Geschwader.

The Ju87G-1 suffered the major disadvantage of being extremely slow and 
unwieldy, and relatively easy preay for fighters, and as Soviet fighter 
oppostion increased, the elderly Junkers was progressively supplanted in the
Schlachtgeschwader by the Focke-Wulf Fw190 for day operations, the Ju87 
being transferred to the Nachtschlachtgruppen, and by the autumn of 1944
only one Gruppe, Rudel's III/SG2, was still on daylight operations with the
Ju87D and G, together with two anti-tank Staffeln, 10.(Pz)/SG2 and
10.(Pz)/SG77.
                        Ju87G-1 Conversion Information

IMPORTANT: This 2nd revision of the Ju87G-1 contains one new file; Bf109.INT.
Copy this file into your \CP directory manually. This has one addition that
will allow the Ju87 to use the B17 graphics for a tail gun. It will be 
transparent to fighters that don't have the proper code in their SPC files.
The Ju87G.EXP file has been modified to make use of this change. Without this
file installed in the \CP subdirectory the program will crash!!!!  The new
file will overwrite the old one.

This conversion uses the cockpit of the Bf109G. This updated conversion does
have a rear gunner position unlike the earlier Ju87G-1 released by me. To
access the rear gunner, just press G, then 2. All other gun positions are
inactive or out of ammo. Just put the rear gunner on auto or man it yourself.
There is some graphic "distortion" in the form of some lines, but this will
not effect use of the gun. Also the landing gear has been fixed in the down
position so you no longer have to remember to put them down as with the first
version I released. If you have the earlier version of the Ju87G1.ZIP from
me just delete the EXP file and and install the one accompanying this text
file in its place. The batch file has been modified so it no longer copies
the PAC files around like the first version did. This has been accomplished
by calling the appropriate files from inside the EXP (SPC) files.
The plane's new designation "Ju87G-1" will appear on the weapons screen. 
You will have a choice of a 2,000 lb., 1000 lb., and 500 lb. bomb for the ]
enter rack and either the BK 37mm cannon or 4x 110 lb bombs for the inner 
rack. The main armament of the plane has been changed to 20mm cannon, which 
was done on later model Stukas. The top speed of the plane was only 255 mph 
and cruise was 198 mph at 75% throttle. 
For those with the P80 expansion disk set installed you can deploy the speed 
brakes by pressing "B". If you don't have the P80 disk set installed this 
feature probably won't work. 

Some very early releases of my Ju87G-1 even had a working autopilot feature.
This was removed because planes so equipped refused to carry out their 
orders to attack their targets and just went flying on over the horizon. So
even if you were the leader of a Stuka group and started to dive bomb the
target your wingmen in this case that were flying in the Stuka group would
ignore you and continue to fly on ahead. Without the autopilot feature you
will now be accompanied by your wingmen on attacks.

You will probably notice some visual quirks, as the imported PAC files from
BOB are not completely compatible with SWOTL. Occassionally you may notice a
plane that appears to be flying sideways or changes back and forth between
the appearance of a Ju87 and Bf109. This will not effect how the planes
react. Normally Ju87s were only used for ground attack and not for 
inteception there was no known way to limit the type of orders used, so if
you use my Ju87 for your custom missions you should limit it DIVE BOMB, 
DIVE BOMB and STRAFE, LEVEL BOMB and STRAFE, FORMATION FLYING, and RETURN TO
BASE orders to be realistic.

Place the JU87.EXP, JU87G.PAC, JU87GS.PAC files in the SWOTL \AC subdirectory
and the JU87.BAT and NOJU87.BAT file in the \SWOTL subdirectory. Remember to
run NOJU87 after you fly any JU87 missions and you are going to quit SWOTL or
before you shutdown your computer. These batch files have no error traps, so
if you forget you may be forced to reinstall the PAC or SPC files for the
BF109G-6 from the original SWOTL disks.

Keith Heitmann, Prodigy ID #GVXV90A
