Messerschmitt Me.210, part three

The Messerschmitt Bf.110 carried its ordnance externally both on the wings and fuselage, creating drag. The Messerschmitt Me.210 aimed to solve that problem by housing the bombs in an enclosed bomb bay placed in the nose of the aircraft. In fact, the Me.210 could carry up to two 500Kg (1100lbs) of bombs. Some variants dedicated to dive-bombing, were fitted with wing brakes and a Stuvi 5B bombsight, where 'Stuvi' stands for 'Sturzkampfvisier' or, translated, dive-bombing sight, in the nose for shallow-angle dive bombing. I some variants which were dedicated to the heavy-fighter role, the bomb-bay was fitted with four 20mm cannons.
As defensive armament, it was armed with two 13mm (0.51in) MG 131 machine guns. Each of those was fitted into a half-teardrop-shaped Ferngerichtete Drehringseitenlafette FDSL 131/1B turrets mounted on each side of the fuselage. Those guns were remote-controlled by the gunner who sat at the rear of the glazed cockpit area with an unique gun-aiming setup. It had a pivoting handgun-style grip, trigger and gunsight at its center to aim the guns vertically, with both turrets elevating and depressing together when operated and horizontally, in pivoting each gun separately outward away from the fuselage side when aimed to one side or the other. The rear of the cockpit canopy's lower side glazin panels were bulged in order to allow the gunner to see in almost every rearward-facing direction. The guns were electrically-fired and an electrical contact-breaker acted as an interrupter (as used in many forms during the war by other types of aircraft like bomber's turrets) to prevent the gunner to shoot off the Me.210's tailplane.
The Messerschmitt Me.210C was an improved variant with almost completely redesigned fuselage and cockpit. Most of them were built in Hungary to German blueprints and, as the license-production contracts stipulated, a part of the Hungarian production had to be delivered to the Luftwaffe. From March 1943 until September 1944 two-hundred seventy-two exemplars were manufactured by the Hungarian Dunai Repülögépgyár (Großkonzern Manfred Weiss) in Budapest of which 114 were delivered to the Luftwaffe from April 1943 onwards. As the type wasn't popular among Luftwaffe's pilots, the type saw very limited action, mostly in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations (although some of them served in the Western European skies equipped with rocket launchers and saw action against Allied bombers) and more precisely in Tunisia and Sardinia, where it was replaced by the more capable, refined and advanced Messerschmitt Me.410 as soon as it became available.
The Me.210C by two Daimler-Benz DB 605B-1 engines which yielded 1455hp of power each. Some of the original incomplete Messerschmitt Me.210A's airframes were refitted into Me.210Cs, maintaining that way the 'Me.210A' designation in spite of looking like, and being, a Me.210C.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_210
2. https://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/17166
3. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters