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    Schräge Musik, which may also be spelled Schraege Musik, was a common name for the fitting of an upward-firing autocannon or machine gun, to an interceptor...
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    Schräge Musik installation. About 95 were built until it was retired from front line use in mid-1944. The N-2 was originally not to have the Schräge Musik...
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    G-series night fighters were retrofitted or factory-built with the Schräge Musik off-bore gun system, which fired upward at an oblique angle for shooting...
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    capacity and was to be armed with two upward-facing MK 108 cannons in a Schräge Musik configuration behind the cockpit. Early models were to have been fitted...
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    altitude and often also two 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 108 cannon, as an offensive Schräge Musik upward-firing system completely contained within the rear fuselage,...
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  • (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 3.7 cm M39(r)) • Schräge Musik – also independently developed by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service...
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    151/20 from 1941 onwards, it saw a comeback in 1943 as the primary Schräge Musik gun in the Bf 110 (and other) night fighters, as it fit perfectly into...
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    Wk.Nr.550214 fitted with FuG 217 is a rare survivor. The effective Schräge Musik offensive armament fitment was the German name given to installations...
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    5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns in oblique mount, similar to World War II German Schräge Musik, to study the ability to attack Soviet bombers from below...
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    in an "upwards-and-forwards" position – almost like the Luftwaffe's Schräge Musik night fighter cannon emplacements – for fighting USAAF B-29 Superfortresses...
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