Nose armament comprised two 20 mm MG FF cannon and two 7.92 mm (0.31 in) MG 17 machine guns. The windscreen was made of 75 mm (2.95 in) armoured glass and the nose section was manufactured from armour plating. It contained a small cockpit with a restricted view, necessitating the removal of some instruments to the inboard sides of the engine cowlings. The latter was another Friedrich Nicolaus design with a light alloy stressed-skin fuselage of triangular section.
The two designs for which development contracts were awarded on 1 October 1937 were the Focke-Wulf Fw 189C and Henschel Hs 129. It was required to carry at least two 20 mm MG FP cannon and to have extensive armour plating protection for crew and engines. Henschel was one of four companies (the others being Focke-Wulf, Gotha and Hamburger Flugzeugbau) to which, in April 1937, the Technische Amt of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) issued a specification for a twin-engine ground-attack aircraft.
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