AEG G.II

The AEG G.II was a biplane bomber built by AEG for the Imperial German Air Service as an improved G.I with more powerful engines, two 110 kilowatt Benz inline piston engines. It typically carried two machine guns and 200 kilograms of bombs, with armour plate for the nose gunner. Stability on one engine proved poor, so many were fitted with extra rudders. Batches of six and twelve were ordered in 1915, and front-line strength peaked at 13 in December 1915. The battleplane idea failed because the aircraft was too slow, but it was used successfully as a bomber in squadron strength.