Daimler-Benz DB 600

The Daimler-Benz DB 600 was a German liquid-cooled inverted V12 aircraft engine developed before the Second World War as the first of a new generation of German aero engines built to the Air Ministry specifications of the 1930s. It grew out of the earlier Daimler-Benz F4A and F4B V12 engines, displaced 33.9 litres and delivered roughly 1,050 PS at takeoff in its later versions. It powered the Messerschmitt Bf 110 and Heinkel He 111 among other aircraft. Its direct successor, the DB 601, added fuel injection and a variable speed supercharger, and later DB engines such as the 603 and 605 followed the basic pattern the DB 600 set.