Junkers Ju 187 Junkers Ju 187 The Junkers Ju 187 was a projected dive bomber designed to replace the ageing Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka". It was cancelled in 1943. By the time of the Battle of Britain the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" had proved very vulnerable to enemy fighters and needed replacement, so after rejection of the Ju 87F proposal a new dive bomber was designed under the designation Ju 187. The projected aircraft kept some of the features of the earlier Ju 87, such as the inverted gull wing and two man crew. It would have added retractable landing gear, as well
Hugo Junkers communist activist, as Managing Director of what remained of his business. Hugo Junkers is mainly known in connection with aircraft bearing his name. These include some he reluctantly developed for the German Empire during World War I, later in minor association with Anthony Fokker, as well as civil aircraft designs during the "interwar period" produced by "Junkers Flugzeugwerke" (Junkers Aircraft Works). Junkers died in 1935. The earliest all-metal post-World War I aircraft designs of both Andrei Tupolev — with his Tupolev ANT-2 two-passenger small aircraft of 1924 — and William Bushnell Stout's initial all-metal design, the Stout ST twin-engine torpedo