Most newer DB engine designs used in WW2 were based on this engine. TheRLM made a set of specifications listing the technologies which the new class of German aero-engines required. Among these items wasfuel injection systems rather thancarburettors. Knowing that this would take some years to implement, theRLM permitted that the manufacturers could first design and produce the basic engine, and later develop it to include the injection system. The DB 600 formed this function (having in turn been developed from the Daimler-Benz F4A and F4B V12s), therefore when the injection system was ready it meant that the DB 600 was replaced by the otherwise similarDB 601, which in addition to direct fuel injection, also added the variable speed supercharger.[1] Later DB series engines grew inbore,stroke, andhorsepower, including theDB 603 andDB 605, but were generally similar to the pattern created with the DB 600.
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